Milk

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To draw or to yield milk.

II. Milk ·add. ·vi To draw or to yield milk.

III. Milk ·noun The ripe, undischarged spat of an Oyster.

IV. Milk ·vt To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.

V. Milk ·vt To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.

VI. Milk ·noun An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

VII. Milk ·noun A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. ·see Latex.

VIII. Milk ·vt To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to Plunder.

IX. Milk ·add. ·vi To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation;

— said of a storage battery.

X. Milk ·noun 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.

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