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milken, a. Now rare or Obs.|ˈmɪlk(ə)n|
[f. milk n.1 + -en5. OE. had mylcen, but the word was prob. formed afresh in the 16th c.]
1. Consisting of milk; occas. abounding in milk.
1570Levins Manip. 62/39 Mylken, lacteus. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 18 The hony and milken riuers. a1618Raleigh Pilgrimage 16 There will I..drink mine euerlasting fill Vpon euery milken hill. 1677Sir W. Temple Gout in Misc. i. (1680) 229 A constant course of the Milken-dyet.
2. Of the colour of milk, milk-white.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. (1598) 407 A prety palenesse (which did leaue milken lines vpon her rosie cheekes). 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter i. 16 She [i.e. truth] reacheth forth to us her milken hand.
3. fig. Soft, mild, gentle.
1648Gage West. Ind. v. (1655) 15 A quiet and milken sea. 1650Trapp Comm. Num. xxxi. 3 Lactantius being (according to his name) a mild and milken man.
4. milken way, milken race = Milky Way.
a1586Sidney Astr. & Stella Song v. ii. (1591) G 2 b, I said thy eyes were starres, thy breasts the milken way. 1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake F 2 b, O you once matchlesse monarches of the seas, But now aduanced to an higher place..In that faire palace neere the milken race. 1612Bacon Ess., Fortune (Arb.) 376 The way of fortune is like the milken way in the skie. |