milk

milk
    n 1: a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as
         food by human beings
    2: produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding
       their young
    3: a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and
       flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
       [syn: {Milk}, {Milk River}]
    4: any of several nutritive milklike liquids
    v 1: take milk from female mammals; "Cows need to be milked
         every morning"
    2: exploit as much as possible; "I am milking this for all it's
       worth"
    3: add milk to; "milk the tea"
    

Milk \Milk\ (m[i^]lk), n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin
   to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel.
   mj[=o]lk, Sw. mj["o]lk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to
   milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr.
   'ame`lgein. [root]107. Cf. {Milch}, {Emulsion}, {Milt} soft
   roe of fishes.]
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   1. (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of
      female mammals for the nourishment of their young,
      consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a
      solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic
      salts. "White as morne milk." --Chaucer.
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   2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color,
      found in certain plants; latex. See {Latex}.
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   3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of
      almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and
      water.
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   4. (Zool.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
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   {Condensed milk}. See under {Condense}, v. t.

   {Milk crust} (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face
      and scalp of nursing infants. See {Eczema}.

   {Milk fever}.
      (a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first
          lactation. It is usually transitory.
      (b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle;
          also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after
          calving.

   {Milk glass}, glass having a milky appearance.

   {Milk knot} (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a
      nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and
      congestion of the mammary glands.

   {Milk leg} (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in
      puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and
      characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an
      accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular
      tissue.

   {Milk meats}, food made from milk, as butter and cheese.
      [Obs.] --Bailey.

   {Milk mirror}. Same as {Escutcheon}, 2.

   {Milk molar} (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which
      are shed and replaced by the premolars.

   {Milk of lime} (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate,
      produced by macerating quicklime in water.

   {Milk parsley} (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum
      palustre}) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice.

   {Milk pea} (Bot.), a genus ({Galactia}) of leguminous and,
      usually, twining plants.

   {Milk sickness} (Med.), See {milk sickness} in the
      vocabulary.

   {Milk snake} (Zool.), a harmless American snake ({Ophibolus
      triangulus}, or {Ophibolus eximius}). It is variously
      marked with white, gray, and red. Called also {milk
      adder}, {chicken snake}, {house snake}, etc.

   {Milk sugar}. (Physiol. Chem.) See {Lactose}, and {Sugar of
      milk} (below).

   {Milk thistle} (Bot.), an esculent European thistle ({Silybum
      marianum}), having the veins of its leaves of a milky
      whiteness.

   {Milk thrush}. (Med.) See {Thrush}.

   {Milk tooth} (Anat.), one of the temporary first set of teeth
      in young mammals; in man there are twenty.

   {Milk tree} (Bot.), a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow
      tree of South America ({Brosimum Galactodendron}), and the
      {Euphorbia balsamifera} of the Canaries, the milk of both
      of which is wholesome food.

   {Milk vessel} (Bot.), a special cell in the inner bark of a
      plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is
      contained. See {Latex}.

   {Rock milk}. See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}.

   {Sugar of milk}. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard
      white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by
      evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and
      powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an
      article of diet. See {Lactose}.
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Milk \Milk\, v. i.
   1. To draw or to yield milk.
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   2. (Elec.) To give off small gas bubbles during the final
      part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage
      battery.
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Milk \Milk\ (m[i^]lk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milked} (m[i^]lkt);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Milking}.]
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   1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the
      hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. "Milking the
      kine." --Gay.
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            I have given suck, and know
            How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk;
      as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
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   3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to
      yield profit or advantage; to plunder. --Tyndale.
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            They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as
            regularly as a dairyman does his stock. --London
                                                  Spectator.
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   {To milk the street}, to squeeze the smaller operators in
      stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately
      raising and depressing prices within a short range; --
      said of the large dealers. [Cant]

   {To milk a telegram}, to use for one's own advantage the
      contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]
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Milk
(1.) Hebrew halabh, "new milk", milk in its fresh state (Judg.
4:19). It is frequently mentioned in connection with honey (Ex.
3:8; 13:5; Josh. 5:6; Isa. 7:15, 22; Jer. 11:5). Sheep (Deut.
32:14) and goats (Prov. 27:27) and camels (Gen. 32:15), as well
as cows, are made to give their milk for the use of man. Milk is
used figuratively as a sign of abundance (Gen. 49:12; Ezek.
25:4; Joel 3:18). It is also a symbol of the rudiments of
doctrine (1 Cor. 3:2; Heb. 5:12, 13), and of the unadulterated
word of God (1 Pet. 2:2).

  (2.) Heb. hem'ah, always rendered "butter" in the Authorized
Version. It means "butter," but also more frequently "cream," or
perhaps, as some think, "curdled milk," such as that which
Abraham set before the angels (Gen. 18:8), and which Jael gave
to Sisera (Judg. 5:25). In this state milk was used by
travellers (2 Sam. 17:29). If kept long enough, it acquired a
slightly intoxicating or soporific power.

  This Hebrew word is also sometimes used for milk in general
(Deut. 32:14; Job 20:17).
    

202 Moby Thesaurus words for "milk":
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      bleed white, blood, break, bridle, broach, brush, butter,
      buttermilk, certified milk, chalk, cheese, chyle, colostrum,
      condensed milk, cream, curry, currycomb, curtail, cut off,
      dairy products, decant, declaim, denude, deplume, deprive,
      deprive of, despoil, discharge, disentitle, displume, divest,
      draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, draw out,
      drench, drink, driven snow, dry, ease one of, elicit, empty,
      evince, evoke, exact, exhaust, exploit, extort, extract, feed,
      flay, fleece, flour, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, foam,
      fodder, gentle, ghee, gleet, grimace, groom, half-and-half, ham,
      ham it up, handle, harness, heavy cream, hitch, humor, hydraulics,
      hydrogeology, ichor, ill-use, impose upon, impoverish, ivory,
      juice, lachryma, lactation, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic,
      lactiferous, latex, let, let blood, let out, leukorrhea,
      light cream, lighten one of, lily, liquid, liquid extract, liquor,
      litter, lymph, maggot, make use of, manage, manipulate, margarine,
      matter, milch, milky, mine, misuse, mucor, mucus, mug, mulct,
      nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine, out-herod Herod, overact,
      overdramatize, paper, pearl, peccant humor, phlebotomize, phlegm,
      pick clean, pipette, play on, pluck, presume upon, pump, pump out,
      purulence, pus, rant, raw milk, rheum, roar, rook, rub down,
      saddle, saliva, sanies, sap, semiliquid, serous fluid, serum,
      shear, sheet, silver, siphon off, skim milk, skin, snot, snow,
      sour cream, spout, stick, strip, strip bare, stroke, suck,
      suck dry, suck out, suppuration, swan, sweat, take advantage of,
      take away from, take from, tame, tap, tear, teardrop, tend,
      the whites, throw away, train, underact, urine, use, use ill,
      venesect, water, whey, whipping cream, withdraw, work on,
      work upon, wring, yogurt, yoke