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milkiness|ˈmɪlkɪnɪs|
[f. milky a. + -ness.]
1. The state of being milky; the condition of resembling milk in appearance or quality.
1696Floyer Anim. Humours viii. 88 The Saltness and Oyliness of the Blood, which absorbing the Acid of the Chyle, it loses its Milkiness. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 395 This milkiness of the eyes shows that such sheep are far gone. 1891Anthony's Photogr. Bull. IV. 96 If no milkiness appears, a solution of common washing soda..should be made. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 444 The milkiness [of certain ascitic fluids] is due to the presence of albumin.
b. Of sidereal and meteorological phenomena: Cloudy whiteness.
1791Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXI. 77 Among them is..Orionis, a cloudy star..but it does not seem to be connected with the milkiness any more than the rest. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxvii. 196 After which a milkiness slowly stole over the heavens. 1879Newcomb & Holden Astron. 458 So distant as to cause the individual stars to disappear in a general milkiness or nebulosity.
2. fig. Mildness, softness, gentleness; weakness. (Very common in the 18th c.)
1692Dryden Cleomenes i. i. 4 Would I could share thy Balmy, even Temper, And Milkiness of Blood. 1753Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 51/2 One may therefore easily conceive with what milkiness of resignation he bore the loss of the whole. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat., Hum. Nat. xxxiv, There is a softness and milkiness of temper that cannot say nay to any thing. 1864Hawthorne S. Felton (1883) 378 The doctor..by no means increasing the milkiness of his mood by frequent applications to the black bottle. |