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ˈwolf's-milk
[Cf. LG. wulfsmelk, MHG. wolfmilch, (G. wolfs-), Da. ulvemelk, etc.]
1. a. A spurge, esp. the sun-spurge, Euphorbia Helioscopia; so called from the acrid milky juice.
1575Banister Chyrurg. 101 Esula, Woulfes milke. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 364/1 For the Felone of the Finger. Take the herbe called Woluesmilcke, tye the same with the Flowers on the Felon [etc.]. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 5 Euphorbia helioscopia (Sun Spurge)..Country people call it..Wolf's-milk. 1897R. N. Bain tr. Jókai's Pretty Michal xxv. 201 The witch took freshly plucked wolf's-milk flowers.
b. The fungus Lycogala.
1861H. Macmillan Footn. Page Nat. 288 The beautiful round vermilion balls of the Lycogala, or Wolf's milk.
2. The milk of a wolf.
1847Tennyson Princess vii. 115 Half the wolf's-milk curdled in their veins. 1892Rider Haggard Nada xvii, They have drunk wolf's milk. |