Of an animal, originally and usually a domestic animal. Chiefly in compounds, as milch animal, milch ass… Yielding milk; in milk (opposed to dry, adj.…

gen. Containing or mixed with milk; having much milk; yielding milk.

Of a cow, ass, etc.: recently in milk. Cf. milched, adj. 1a.

Replete with milk, containing much milk.

giving milk freely (of cows; cf. quot. 1883).

Milk-giving, yielding milk.

Yielding milk. Obsolete or ? dialect.

in milk: †(a), in infancy (obsolete); (b) in a condition to yield milk; lactating. †to bring to milk: to induce lactation in (an animal) (obsolete).