lactaryadj.n.
/ˈlaktəri/ rare.
A. adj.
Of or pertaining to milk; concerned with milk. †Of a plant: Yielding a milky juice.
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the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > having or yielding a milky fluid
lactary1646
milky1646
lactific1657
lactescent1673
lactiferous1675
lactifluous1777
lactarious1855
lactory-
the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [adjective] > relating to milk
milkeneOE
milkyc1449
lactary1646
lacteal1753
lactic1789
milchig1904
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. x. 323 Why also from Lactary or milky plants which have a white and lacteous juice dispersed through every part, there arise flowers blue and yellow? View more context for this quotation
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Mm3 A Lactary, and a ferulaceous Herb.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Column Lactary Column, at Rome, according to Festus, was a Column..; which had a Cavity in its Pedestal, wherein young Children, abandon'd by their Parents, out of Poverty or Inhumanity, were exposed, to be brought up at the publick Expence.
1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy i. 381 The Titular Head Of the State's Lactary Department, she.
B. n. † a. (See quot. 1623.) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of milk > woman
milk-wife1444
milk-woman1605
lactary1623
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Lactarie, She that selleth milke.
b. A dairy.In modern dictionaries.
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1669 J. Worlidge Dict. Rusticum in Systema Agric. Lactary, a Dairy-house.
1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.
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