| 释义 |
ˈvirgin's milk ? Obs.
[transl. med.L. lac virginis.]
A chemical preparation having a milky appearance: a. A cosmetic preparation or wash for cleansing or purifying the face or skin (see quots.). Cf. lac virginis 1.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. lxxiii. 604 Virgins milke is thus made with a filtre. Ibid., This virgins milke is good to heale ringwormes, and saucie and red faces. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 289/1 The Tincture [of Benjamin] made with the Alcohol of Wine, being mixt with a great deal of Water, makes a kind of Milk, which by some is call'd Virgins Milk, which serves for a Wash for the Face and Skin. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs l. 187 This Tincture of Benjamin and Storax is call'd Virgin [sic] Milk. 1721Bailey, Virgin's milk, a sort of Chymical Composition, called Benjamin water. 1835Penny Cycl. IV. 257/1 A solution of benzoin in alcohol, added to twenty parts of rose-water, forms the cosmetic called Virgin's milk.
†b. (See quot.) Obs. rare—0.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Virgin's Milk, is made of dissolving Saccharum Saturni [i.e. lead acetate] in a great deal of Water: It will turn white as Milk; whence the Name. [Hence in Bailey.] |