单词 | in milk |
释义 | > as lemmasin milk e. in milk: †(a) [after post-classical Latin in lacte] , in infancy (obsolete); (b) in a condition to yield milk; lactating. †to bring to milk: to induce lactation in (an animal) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [adjective] > yielding milk milchc1300 milky1557 new-milch1569 milkful1589 glad-milch1601 milchy1606 blithe1656 in milk1797 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare xv. vii. 530 There be certaine men, that..fearing, that if they atteine to any knowledge, they shal be proud: and so they remaine stil onely in Milke [transl. Augustine: et remanent in solo lacte]. 1655 W. Hammond Poems 15 Had Thyrsis flocks in milke abounded more, I should not with such grief my losse deplore. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit (1816) 61 Reserving only one for sucking of the old ones, to keep them in milk. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In the Philosophical Transactions, we have an account of a Wether brought to Milk by the sucking of a Lamb. 1797 Monthly Mag. 3 486 The best three-year-old heifer, which..shall be in milk at the time of show. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour ix. l. 283 When people talk of cream, and ask how many cows you have, they mean in milk. a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) II. xxix. 309 The commanding officer..sent to us..a goat in full milk—was there ever any thing kinder. 1963 B. Brophy Finishing Touch i. 28 Her breasts, Antonia thought, were vast. She could not be in milk? 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) iv. 43 There cattle in milk and small stock are grazed, skins dried and tanned, stone knapped, firewood collected, weapons made. 2009 E. Cunningham Bright Dark Madonna xxx. 235 Seeds were beginning to stir; the ewes and she-goats were in milk. The people would live. in milk b. in the milk (also in milk): (of grain) having a milky consistency due to incomplete development. out of the milk: (of grain) beginning to mature. ΚΠ 1772 J. Habersham Let. 24 Sept. in Georgia Hist. Soc. Coll. (1904) VII. 213 The Rice came up rather unequal, so that a good deal of those Fields were in Milk. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 21 The corn then being in the milk. a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) II. 341 When the kernels of wheat..are in the milk. 1878 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) IV. 153 At the time when the contents of the berry [of wheat] are in the condition technically known as ‘milk’. 1899 Evesham Jrnl. 29 Apr. 6/5 The sparrows began [to eat the wheat] as soon as the corn was just out of the milk. 1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. iv. xlii. 191 This bread was of two kinds; one made up of green corn while still ‘in the milk’, and the other of dry and ripened corn. 1965–70 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 596 How do you know when corn is ready to eat?.. It's in the milk. < as lemmas |
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