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单词 milk
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milkn.1adj.

Brit. /mɪlk/, U.S. /mɪlk/
Forms: Old English mealc (rare), Old English meluc (rare), Old English meoloc, Old English miolc (rare), Old English mioloc (rare), Old English–early Middle English meolc, Old English–early Middle English meoluc, Old English (Anglian)–Middle English milc, late Old English milch, early Middle English millc ( Ormulum), early Middle English moluc, Middle English melk (chiefly southern), Middle English melke (chiefly southern), Middle English mulc (chiefly southern), Middle English mulk (chiefly southern), Middle English mylc, Middle English–1500s mylk, Middle English–1500s mylke, Middle English–1600s milke, Middle English–1700s milck, Middle English– milk, 1500s milcke, 1500s mylck, 1500s mylcke; English regional (Devon) 1900s– mulk; Scottish pre-1700 meilk, pre-1700 melk, pre-1700 mielk, pre-1700 milke, pre-1700 mylc, pre-1700 mylke, pre-1700 1700s– milk, pre-1700 (1900s– Shetland) mylk, 1700s milck, 1700s milcke, 1900s– mulk; Irish English 1800s melk, 1800s mulke.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian melok (West Frisian molke ), Middle Dutch melc (Dutch melk ), Old Saxon miluk (Middle Low German melk , melik ), Old High German miluh , milih (Middle High German milich , milch , German Milch ), Old Icelandic mjólk , Old Swedish miolk , miölk (Swedish mjölk ), Old Danish mielch , mialk (Danish mælk ), Gothic miluks , probably ultimately < the Germanic base of Old English melcan (see milk v.), although the exact relationship is difficult to explain phonologically: the origin of the vowel between l and k in the Germanic base of the noun is problematic (and has led some to suggest that the noun and the verb may not ultimately be cognate). Compare milch n.1The synonymous Slavonic forms (Old Church Slavonic mlěko , Russian moloko , Czech mléko , etc.) probably represent early borrowing < Germanic, as they have k instead of z (the expected Slavonic development of Indo-European palatal g ; compare the Slavonic forms with sibilants in the list of Indo-European cognates s.v. milk v.). Similarly, classical Latin melca dish made from sour milk ( > Hellenistic Greek μέλκα , in the same sense), probably also represents an early borrowing < Germanic. These borrowings, if not directly from the Germanic base of Old English melcan , perhaps reflect a form of the Germanic base of the noun before the development of an epenthetic vowel. The word is originally a Germanic feminine athematic consonant stem (compare book n., borough n., goose n., louse n., etc.), which in Old English would be expected to show variation between on the one hand the nominative and accusative singular form meoluc , meoloc (or, with syncopation, meolc ), and on the other the genitive and dative singular form milc (with Germanic mutation of e to i before an i -suffix). However, the word was widely assimilated to other declensions with consequent levelling of forms: in West Saxon the stem meol(u)c , meol(o)c was levelled to all cases, and in Anglian the stem milc . The late Old English form milch (apparently with ch for k ) probably reflects the influence of Anglo-Norman spelling conventions. With sense A. 4a compare Dutch regional melk , melke , Middle Low German melk , German Milch , in the same sense; compare also the parallel formation represented by Icelandic mjólkvi (17th cent.), Norwegian (Nynorsk) mjølke , Norwegian (Bokmål) melke , Swedish mjölke (16th cent.), Danish mælke < the same Scandinavian base as Old Icelandic mjólk milk n.1 Compare milch n.2
A. n.1
1.
a. A whitish fluid, rich in fat and protein, secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals (including humans) for the nourishment of their young, and taken from cows, sheep, etc., as an article of the human diet.certified, churn-, condensed, cow-, morning-, mother's, skim-, skimmed, wrench milk, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk
milkeOE
yarrum1567
minky1930
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > milk > [noun]
milkeOE
suck1584
ninny1909
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xix. 244 He..elles ne þeah nemne medmicel hlafes mid þinre meolc.
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) xviii. 8 Abraham ða nam buteran & meolc & þæt flæsc mid heorðbacenum hlafum.
lOE Payments at Burial, Bury St. Edmunds in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 252 VIII pe[niges] an cese & þræ peniges at fysc & fæouer pæniges at milch.
lOE tr. R. d'Escures Sermo in Festis Sancte Marie Virginis in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 137 Ðonne he wæs hungrig & þurstig, heo hine estlice gefylde mid hire meolca.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6440 Hiss moderr. Þatt fedde himm wiþþ þatt illke millc Þatt comm off hire pappe.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 643 (MED) Y shal þe fete Bred an chese, butere and milk.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 4048 Warm melk sche putte..therto With hony meynd.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 462 Þe cow-calf coueyteth swete mylke.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 337 Mylche, or mylke of a cowe, Lac.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 15 The melk of a goot.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 124 Milke, crayme, and cruddes, and eke the Ioncate.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. iv. sig. C He wyll decerne milke from butter, and breadde from pappe, and er he can speake, he wyll with his hande or countenaunce signifie, whiche he desireth.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Lac Glauciscus eaten in broth make women haue plentie of milke.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 293 They'l take suggestion, as a Cat laps milke . View more context for this quotation
c1616 R. C. Times' Whistle (1871) iii. 1048 Goats pure milck.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 110 Of milks the Womans is most temperate.
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 208 If the Ass's Milk stands twelve Hours, it will gather no Cream.
1765 Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 Aug. 3/3 (advt.) Strayed away, on the 28th of July last, a red and white cow, of a middle size..; her teats are very full of warts, and gives much Milch.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln xiii. 297 He..gives first new, then skim milk.
1841 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 1353 Fresh milk slightly reddens litmus.
1861 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 22 i. 35 These milks came from the same dairy.
1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 496 The young ones [of the Duck-billed Platypus], when hatched, are fed with milk by the mother.
1915 D. H. Lawrence Rainbow vi. 177 When the milk came, and the infant sucked her breast, she seemed to be leaping with extravagant bliss.
1959 D. Hewett Bobbin Up (1961) viii. 103 Reggie's mother don't think so. She's always sayin' me milk must be too thin.
1988 Bella 4 Apr. 10/1 After yet another frenzied attack on an ordinary carton of milk..I felt I had to write.
2011 D. M. Rau Teen Guide Breakfast on Go 26 Cookies and milk for breakfast? Here's a way to have a morning treat and still please your parents.
†b. A yield or quantity of milk; the capacity to give milk. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > yield at a milking
milkness1493
milk1501
milking1538
meltith1550
1501 in J. A. Clyde Acta Dominorum Concilii (1943) 76 Twelf hundreth ky..with the proffittis mylkis and calffis of the sammyn.
1535–6 Selkirk Burgh Court 28 Feb. f. 206v Jhone Gawe heycht hyme half ane boll of meill for the half meilk of ane kowe.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mousson, a Cowes milke,..as much as she yeelds at a milking.
1659 Kelso Presbytery in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club V. 335 [A neighbour] saide that she had taken away her kines milks.
c. The condition of lactating, lactation; the milk yielded during a specified period of lactation. Now rare except in in milk at sense A. 1e.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [noun] > secretion of milk > period of
milk1512
lactation1847
1512 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 356 To ane nurice to the Prince..at was prewit with sex wolkis mylk.
1616 Sir E. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 249 One nurse with one milk did suckle six of us.
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. iv. 25 Milk..is certainly the occasion of many Tumours of divers kinds.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 16 When Milk is dry'd with heat, In vain the Milk-maid tugs an empty Teat.
†d. The period of infancy. See also in milk at sense A. 1e. Obsolete.
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?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. i. sig. C Moche more diligence ought to be gyven in a Christen virgine that we may both enfurme her encreace and ordre hit and her instruction and entryng and that by and by from the mylke.
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1648 in Wks. (1640) III Wee see in men, even the strongest compositions had their beginnings from milke, and the Cradle [transl. of Quintilian 1. 1. 21 a lacte cunisque].
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).
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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.
f. off (her) milk: (of a cow) in a state of not yielding milk.
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1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Apr. vii. 78 Such a Cow falls off her Milk.
1784 J. Twamley Dairying Exemplified 23 When any Cow went off her Milk either by any accident, or otherwise; then he always replaced her with a new Milcht one.
1854 20th Rep. Commissioners National Educ. Ireland II. 587 in Parl. Papers XXX. ii. 1 Ten cows, three of which are off milk.
1884 Times 1 Sept. 2/2 Or the cows go off milk for a time, and then they [sc. the owners of the cows] must be content to drink water.
1980 F. Weldon Puffball 163 The cows went off milk, the hens stopped laying again.
2000 Daily News (New Plymouth, N.Z.) (Nexis) 14 Sept. 17 Anything which upsets cows is going to cause them to go off their milk.
2.
a. A milky juice or latex present in the stems or other parts of various plants, which exudes when the plant is cut, and is often acrid, irritant, or toxic. Also: spec. the drinkable watery liquid found in the hollow space inside the fruit of the coconut.tiger's milk: see tiger n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > fluid, juice, or sap
oozeeOE
sapOE
milkOE
slime?c1225
juicec1290
humoura1398
opiuma1398
watera1425
sop1513
afion1542
suc1551
suck1560
ab1587
lymph1682
blood1690
fluid1705
humidities1725
succus1771
plant milk1896
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) cx. 154 Wið weartan genim þysse ylcan wyrte [sc. spurge's] meolc & clufþungan wos, do to þære weartan.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 224 The mylke of the figge tree.
?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 132 Þis herb haȝt mylk with-inne þe leef.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Lac The milke that is in greene figges. Herba lactaria, an hearbe that hath milke in it as spurge, &c.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §639 There be Plants, that have a Milk in them when they are Cut; as Figs, Old-Lettuce, Sow-Thistles, Spurge, &c.
1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies ii. 30 The milk of cocoa nuts.
1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 83/1 The milks of wild-poppies, garden-poppies, dandelion, hawk-weed, and sow-thistle gave brown or brownish-red stains.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 213 The Cow Plant of Ceylon..yields a milk of which the Cingalese make use for food.
1898 Engin. Mag. 16 138/1 Analyses of the milk of a variety of rubber plants.
1945 W. O. Howarth & L. G. G. Warne Lowson's Textbk. Bot. (ed. 9) xii. 278 There is a cavity in the middle of the endosperm filled with sap (so-called ‘milk’).
1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse x. 137 Green coconuts, each full of ice-cold milk even on the hottest day.
1994 New Scientist 30 July 5/1 Coconut meat and milk play a large role in the traditional Marshallese diet, but caesium collects in coconuts.
2008 P. Sterry Collins Brit. Wildlife 186/2 Milkcaps belong to the genus Lactarius and are so called because their cap and gills produce droplets of ‘milk’ when cut or scratched. In most species the milk is white.
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.
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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.
c. colloquial (originally U.S.). the milk in the coconut: a puzzling fact or circumstance; (also) a crux.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > puzzle, enigma, riddle > [noun] > knotty point, crux
knotc1000
the milk in the coconut1840
crux1852
1840 Spirit of Times 21 Mar. 25/2 All of ‘vich’..fully accounts..for the milk in the cocoa-nut.
1853 Knickerbocker 42 50 The milk in the cocoa nut was accounted for.
1898 Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Let. in G. S. Layard Mrs. Lynn Linton (1901) xxiv. 362 The Koran is very interesting—but oh, the milk in the cocoanut! It is so queerly disjointed and non-sequential, far more so than the Epistles, and they have their full share of that milk in the cocoanut.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 306 Hoho begob, says I to myself, says I. That explains the milk in the cocoanut and absence of hair on the animal's chest.
1928 ‘A. J. Alan’ Good Evening, Everyone! (ed. 3) 55 He then confessed that in a very weak moment he'd promised to write the play... I said: ‘Well, have you written it?’ And he said: ‘No, that's the milk in the coco-nut! When I said I would, I hadn't tried, and now I've tried, I find I can't’.
1972 L. Meynell Death by Arrangem. i. 17 ‘Nobody can really be christened Waveney: it's a river...’ ‘In East Anglia. Hence, as they say, the milk in the coconut. Rolffe's father..called his eleven children after East Anglian rivers.’
3. figurative.
a. [especially with allusion to 1 Corinthians 3:2 and Hebrews 5:12, contrasted with ‘(strong) meat’.] Nourishment appropriate only to the earliest stages of development. Frequently in milk for babes.
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the world > people > person > baby or infant > [noun] > babyhood or infancy
milkeOE
barnagec1400
infancec1400
infancya1513
babeship1542
babehood1548
cradle1555
cradle-hood1599
baby agea1617
biggin1616
babyship1617
dentity1638
babyhood1748
babyism1798
paphood1837
babydom1853
infanthood1862
infantage1866
tottledom1889
toddlerhood1917
the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > invalid or infants food
milkeOE
pap1286
pap-meat1440
kitchen physic1566
mammaday1593
suckling meatsc1610
embamma1623
kitchen medicine1684
pappy1807
pobs1824
baby food1832
pobbies1848
eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) lxiii. 459 Be ðæm cwæð sanctus Paulus:..ge sint giet cilderu on eowrum geleafan, ðy ic sceal sellan eow giet mioloc drincan, nalles flæsc etan.
OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) lxxxi. 331 Ne mihte ic sprecan wið eow swylce wið gastlice, ac swylce wið flæsclice, and ic sealde eow, þe for Criste sint lytlingas, meoloc for drinc and nanne strangne mete.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lx. 16 Thou shalt souke the mylc of Jentiles, and with the tete of kingis thou shalt be mylkid.
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 613 Flatereres ben the deueles norices that norissen hise children with milk of losengerie.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 14706 (MED) With my mylk off fflatrye I was noryce..vn-to Pryde.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. I3v Inhumaine creatures, nurst with Tigers milke, Why gape you for your soueraignes ouerthrow?
1641 H. Peters (title) Milke for Babes, and Meat for Men: or, Principles necessary to be knowne..of such as would know Christ.
1772 T. Nugent tr. P. J. Grosley Tour to London I. 318 Tithes were the first milk of these rising establishments [sc. monasteries].
1803 (title) Milk for babes; or, a catechism in verse.
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 121 Neither are their consciences of that puling kind, that will submit to be fed with this milk of babes.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 70 He was nourished, not by solid food, but by milk, i.e. by the rudiments of piety and righteousness.
1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Jan. 35/3 The strong wine of Sovietophobia on which most of the contributors had dined was just milk for babes at the Burnham table.
1983 A. Mason Illusionist iii. 90 All knowledge, all speculation, all endeavour, were reduced to this children's milk.
b. Something pleasant and held to be nourishing to the mind or spirit. pure milk n. something of the purest or finest quality.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > nourishing food
milkeOE
marrowa1382
cordialc1405
nutritivec1475
nutrient1828
flesh-former1873
macromineral1966
macronutrient1968
phytonutrient1994
eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) i. 67 He [sc. the paternoster] bið seofan snytro and saule hunig and modes meolc, mærþa gesælgost.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 55 Aduersities sweete milke, philosophie. View more context for this quotation
1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick Ep. Ded. sig. a1v It..turneth into Milk bony Paradoxes.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Kubla Khan in Christabel 58 For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
1917 J. Morley Recoll. I. iv. 52 It was, in fact, the pure milk of the Millite word.
1931 Daily Express 15 Oct. 2/4 Men like Mr. Runciman, who hitherto represented the purest milk of the Cobdenite gospel.
1955 Times 6 July 11/3 Broadcasting..probably remains the most effective way, within the compass of an election campaign, of distributing the pure milk of party doctrine.
1975 ‘W. Haggard’ Scorpion's Tail vii. 103 For the pure milk of doctrine she cared not a damn. She saw communism as a convenient front.
2000 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 4 Sept. Quangos are curds in the pure milk of democracy.
4.
a. The milt (milt n. 2) of a fish. Cf. milch n.2 Now regional.
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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn > of male
milka1398
spawnc1430
milt1483
milker?a1500
soft roe1587
milch1673
milter1834
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 159v Whan þe femele leggeþ eyren oþer pisen, þe male cometh aftir and shedith his mylke vpon þe eyren.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 591/16 Lactes, roof of fyshe, or mylke of fyshe.
1494 Loutfut MS f. 34, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at (Milk) The tenche is a fisch without mylk & is norist in the dirt.
1667 P. Skippon Diary 7 Sept. in Norfolk Archaeol. (1925) 22 156 White or herrings..have their gills, gutts & the milk or row taken out.
1718 G. Jacob Compl. Sportsman 121 The Spawner lays her Spawn, and upon it the Melter drops his Milk.
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Milk,..the roe in a male fish.
†b. in the milk: (of an oyster) containing spawn which has not yet been discharged. Cf. milky adj. 2d. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > spawn > before discharge
in the milk1858
1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1480/2 The breeding-time of oysters is in April or May, from which time to July or August the oysters are said to be sick or in the milk.
5.
a. A culinary, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, or other preparation resembling milk, esp. in colour. Usually with the principal ingredient or use specified by a preceding or following word.soya, tree milk, etc.: see the first element; almond milk n., rice milk n.† milk of mercury n. Obsolete mercuric chloride dissolved in the sap of a fumitory.
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the world > matter > liquid > [noun] > types of liquid generally > milk-like liquid
milka1425
a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 72 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 114 Cast þerinne gode mylke of almaundes.
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. D They breake them with stones and pound them in morters with water to make a milk.
1677 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. ii. xvii. 299 This Tincture, is a dissolution of the Rosine of Benjamin made in Spirit of Wine. When it is mixed in a great deal of Water, it makes a Milk.
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. ix. 587 Milk of Mercury... Milk of Scammony.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 23/1 The name of milk is given to substances very different from milk properly so called.
1814 Intrigues of Day in New Brit. Theatre I. 76 A little milk of roses.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 1059 Milk of Wax is a valuable varnish.
1965 Harper's Bazaar 89/1 Hand Cream, Foundation Cream, Cleansing Milk.
1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking iii. xi. 189 Settlers had already learned from the Indians how to turn indigenous nuts into butters and ‘milks’.
1990 Pract. Health Spring 7/1 Cleansing creams or milks are massaged into warm skin where they liquefy.
2015 K. Sokiran tr. J. Jakuszeit Make your own Soaps 65/2 When the cleansing milk has cooled down slightly, add the extract/xanthan mixture.
b. milk of almonds n. = almond milk n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > milk substitutes or alternatives
almond milk1381
milk of almondsa1425
oat milk1844
soy milk1906
soya milk1911
plant milk1959
coffee whitener1961
creamer1961
coffee lightener1962
rice milk1986
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > lotions and liquids
waterOE
maiden milk?a1425
May-dew?a1425
milk of almondsa1425
maidens' milk?c1450
lac Virginis1477
surflingc1555
surfle1593
virgin's milk1600
lotion1606
washa1627
beauty water1675
mercury-water1676
beauty wash1706
Kalydor1824
skin tonic1863
flower-water1886
Limacol1936
moisture lotion1957
toning lotion1960
toner1970
a1425 [see sense A. 5a].
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 48 (MED) Take gode Milke of Almaundys, & flowre of Rys.
1526 Grete Herball ccclxxiii. sig. Uvi Other sethe it with mylke or oyle of almondes and in that maner it leseth þe vertue to bynde.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 23/2 Emulsions made with almonds are commonly called milk of almonds.
1869 A. S. Wright Wright's Bk. 3000 Pract. Receipts 211 To Remove Freckles,..Bichloride of mercury, 2 parts; hydrochloric acid, 1 part; spirit of wine, 3 parts; milk of almonds, 25 parts; rose-water, 45 parts. Mix, and apply night and morning.
1985 A. Burgess tr. E. Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac ii. 53 Shimmering like silk, Aromatic milk Of almonds will c—ome next, and next prepare Pastry light as air To coat with care Each pretty pastry mould.
c. milk of sulphur n. a suspension of amorphous powdered sulphur in water; precipitated sulphur obtained from this.
ΚΠ
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sulphur Magistery, or Balm..of Sulphur is..called Milk of Sulphur from its Whiteness.
1867 C. L. Bloxam Chemistry 186 Milk of sulphur, or precipitated sulphur (obtained by adding an acid to the solution of sulphur in an alkali), is white.
1898 Rev. Brit. Pharmacy 41 Milk of sulphur.
1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xiv. 304 Another amorphous form is obtained as milk of sulphur when a polysulphide solution is acidified.
d. milk of lime n. a suspension of calcium hydroxide in water; lime water.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > decoction or infusion > [noun] > aqueous decoction or infusion > specific
barley waterc1320
oak-water?1523
hydrelaeon?1550
plantain-water1588
lily-water1599
napha water1600
cowslip-water1612
water of magnanimity1659
succory water1670
lime-water1682
onion-water1694
pennyroyal water1699
balm-water1712
forge-water1725
laurel-water1731
aqua mirabilis1736
tar-water1740
milk of lime1784
laurel-cherry water1787
fly-water1815
herb-water1886
1784 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 123 I impregnated some milk of lime with the fumes of burning sulphur... The milk of lime was then filtered and evaporated, but it yielded no nitrous salt.
1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 23/2 Water in which quicklime has been slaked, which..has hence been called the milk of lime.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. III. vi. 373 The tallow is melted by injecting hot steam into the vat which contains it, and milk of lime is added.
1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxv. 331 Calcium sulphite, prepared by the action of sulphur dioxide on milk of lime, is used very largely to disintegrate wood fibre.
2005 Ö. Kirca in C. Modena et al. Struct. Anal. Hist. Constr. I. iii. 88/2 If quicklime is hydrated with a proper amount of water and well agitated, it forms a milky suspension known as milk of lime.
e. Milk of Magnesia n. (a proprietary name for) a white suspension of magnesium hydroxide in water, taken as an antacid and laxative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for indigestion > mineral-derived
magnesia1755
natron1803
Milk of Magnesia1880
Eno1889
bicarb1922
Maalox1951
1880 Trade Marks Jrnl. 3 Mar. 95 Milk of Magnesia... Preparations of magnesia for medical purposes, especially hydrate of magnesia, and also proprietary medicines.
1924 H. Crane Let. 30 Nov. (1965) 194 I had..taken a great deal of Alkalithia and milk of magnesia.
1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xxvi. 282 Aarfy had a date..with a Red Cross girl..whose father owned an important milk-of-magnesia plant.
1999 Sci. Amer. June 71/2 He was obsessive about his diet and bowel habits and kept a daily record..of his body temperature and milk of magnesia consumption.
†6. milk of the moon n. Obsolete = moonmilk n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > carbonates > [noun] > hexagonal > calcite > varieties
alabasterc1384
agarica1400
alabastrites1582
alabastrite1592
Iceland crystal1673
agaric mineral1728
milk of the moon1728
Iceland spar1771
argentine1795
rock milk1804
slate-spar1804
schieferspar1807
calc-spar1822
wonderstone1824
manganocalcite1852
neotype1854
hislopite1859
aphrite1868
thinolite1879
moonmilk1885
vaterite1913
micrite1959
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Milk of the moon, a white, porous, friable, insipid Earth, extracted by sublimation from a Matter frequently found in Silver-mines.
7. Originally North American. Strong alcoholic drink, often of a particular type (see quots.), esp. whisky or beer. Sometimes with a preceding word suggestive of strength or ferocity, as in cougar milk, wild-mare's milk, etc. Cf. mother's milk n. 2, Tiger Milk n. at tiger n. Compounds 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > strong
strong drinkc1405
ipse1634
knock-down1698
hogan1702
knock-me-down1756
milk1784
hot stuff1823
chain lightning1825
sudden death1834
hardware1835
stagger-juice1905
sting1929
strongers1939
screech1944
rocket fuel1958
1784 J. Filson Discov. Kentucke 86 This being the day of joy to the Wabash Indians, we beg a little drop of your milk... We could never learn to make rum..and we all love rum.
1802 A. Henry Jrnl. 13 Sept. (1988) I. 135 My Canoes arrived some time before I came, and the Indians anxiously waiting my arrival, to taste the New Milk, what they generally call Rum when speaking in a ceremonious stile.
1809 A. Henry Trav. & Adventures Canada ii. viii. 243 What they most long for, is a taste of his rum, which they uniformly denominate milk.
1891 J. E. McCann & E. Jarrold Odds & Ends 34 Wait till I give these two chaps their milk. Fifteen cents please; ten for the shandygaff and five for the pony.
1937 E. C. Parsons Great Adventure 90 Bill was constantly..settling squabbles among the boys resulting from strained nerves or too much cougar milk.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 153 Wild mare's milk, hard liquor.
1958 W. F. McCullough Woods Words 39 Cougar milk, any kind of stout home brew or any other raw liquor.
1970 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 4 iii.–iv. 21 Milk, beer.
1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways vii. iv. 264 It isn't that Indians lost their land because of whiskey—that stuff they called the Great Father's Milk—they just lost it faster because of whiskey.
2005 B. Henderson Every Trail has Story vii. 111 I only wish I'd had a round of ‘cougar milk’ for those in the room when making those toasts.
†8. Milk-white colour. Cf. milk-and-water n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > pure whiteness > as milk
milk-white1547
milkiness1659
lactescency1758
milk1804
latescencea1856
1804 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. I. 506 Slate Spar... Its colour is milk, greenish and reddish white.
1899 A. C. Swinburne Rosamund i. i. 2 White I know from red, and dark from bright, And milk from white in hawthorn-flowers.
9. colloquial (chiefly British). = milkman n. 1. Usually with the.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of milk
milkman1589
milk seller1600
milk carrier1794
milk-vendor1851
milk1859
milkie1886
milko1905
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 51 On his own doorstep..he sat, informing the ‘milk’..that..he was at heart..a soldier.
1895 W. P. Ridge Minor Dialogues 79 I know all the comic songs..and I sing 'em whilst I'm a doing up the front steps; and the milk, he says he reckons it'll end in me going on the stage.
1933 A. Thirkell High Rising ii. 36 The London tradesmen..called her Miss, until a fateful day when the Milk, so she told Laura, had called her Miss once too often.
1967 ‘A. Gilbert’ Visitor x. 174 She hadn't informed the postman and anyone can put out a note for the Milk.
1975 B. Meyrick Behind Light xv. 202 The disappearance of George the Milk's horse.
2002 S. Cartmell From Aintree to York xxxi. 278 As I packed my car, ready for the trip to Shropshire, ‘Mick the Milk’ whistled his way up my drive.
†10. A cloudy imperfection found in some diamonds. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. x. 147 A semi-opaque imperfection [in diamonds], which we call ‘milk’, or ‘salt’.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 24 If it [sc. the stone] contain cloudy imperfections known in the trade as ‘milk’ or ‘salt’, its value is very greatly diminished.
†B. adj. = milk-white adj.
Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as milk
milk-whiteOE
as white as milkOE
milkisha1398
milkya1398
milkc1450
milky-white1581
milkena1586
lacteal1633
lacteous1646
lactaceous1656
lactean1659
lactescent1758
milchy1890
c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 120 (MED) Melk [v.r. Milke white] was her destrere.
1853 M. Arnold Sohrab & Rustum in Poems (new ed.) 13 That vast sky-neighbouring mountain of milk snow.

Phrases

P1.
a.
milk and honey (also †milk and mellie) n. [with allusion to the biblical description of the Promised Land, Exodus 3:8, etc.] prosperity and abundance; richness of produce; plenty, comfort; also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > prosperous conditions
fatnessc1000
milk and honeyOE
plentyc1330
sunshine1584
felicities1625
rose1832
sunlight1864
OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Num. (Claud.) xvi. 13 Ðu alæddest us of ðam lande þe weol meolce & hunige.
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. i. 30 Is þæt ealond welig on meolcum & on hunige.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 5793 I sal þam bring... In-till a land..rinnand bath honi and milk.
a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xx. 6 The loond which Y hadde purueiede to hem, flowynge with mylk and hony.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. iii. 8 A lande flowing with milke and hony . View more context for this quotation
1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G3v For, fro thy Makings milke, and mellie flowes To feed the Songster-swaines with Arts soot-meats.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xv. x. 275 The Land of Milk and Honey lay..over-flown With Mahumetick Poyson.
1684 J. Stewart Let. in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 220 [Scotl.] The lord Iehowah the God of eserall..can & woll cery his pepll throw fayr & watr to aland yt flowth wt melk & hony.
1726 H. Baker 2nd Pt. Orig. Poems 50 Delightful Land! where Milk and Honey flows!
1783 J. King Thoughts Diffic. ii. 28 America is now the fancied land of milk and honey.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. ii. i. 70 The milk and honey of the political Canaan.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xxiv. 354 An out-of-door tea was always the crowning joy of the day. The land literally flowed with milk and honey on such occasions.
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route ii. 24 The original milk and honey route was a railroad from Salt Lake City southward through the valleys of Utah. In the early days..this was the greatest feeding-ground for hobos.
1976 M. J. Lasky Utopia & Revol. (1977) ii. 66 Religion..consoled the exploited masses with the prospect of milk and honey in a heavenly paradise and diverted them from the struggle for justice in the here-and-now.
1987 J. A. McArdle Sin Embargo 466 His voice was milk and honey.
1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Sport section) 3/2 Promotion back to English football's land of milk and honey is his priority this season.
b.
milk and roses n. now rare (designating) a delicate pink-and-white complexion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > pink and whiteness > [noun]
milk and rosesa1637
peaches and cream1893
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 70 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Your either cheeke discloses, Mingled bathes of Milke and Roses.
1858 Harper's Mag. Oct. 604 She was certainly remarkably beautiful. Her complexion was milk and roses admirably mingled.
1899 H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne ii. 14 Dainty of figure she was, with a face all milk and roses.
1918 E. Wallace Down Under Donovan vi. 51 Her milk and rose complexion.
1940 H. G. Wells All aboard for Ararat i. 24 The third, Japhet, was what the Germans would consider a Nordic type, all milk and roses.
†c.
milk and molasses n. U.S. Obsolete (designating) a colour between white and dark brown; (hence attributive) of mixed racial ancestry; also figurative.
ΚΠ
1833 J. Neal Down-easters I. vii. 96 The people of this country..are of two colors, black and white..or half-and-half sometimes at the south, where they are called milk-and-molasses.
1868 N.Y. Herald 2 July 5/1 Then it will be of a purer color than the platform of the radicals, which is of milk and molasses hue.
1872 Galaxy Mar. 299 See that stiff-looking chap, with a long yellow moustache talking to that milk-and-molasses gal over there by the piano?
P2. In proverbial comparisons.
a. as white as milk.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective] > pure white > as milk
milk-whiteOE
as white as milkOE
milkisha1398
milkya1398
milkc1450
milky-white1581
milkena1586
lacteal1633
lacteous1646
lactaceous1656
lactean1659
lactescent1758
milchy1890
OE tr. Wonders of East (Tiber.) §21. 196 Hi beoð an lichoman swa hwite swa meolc.
c1300 Miracle of Monk in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1923) 38 320 (MED) A lilie fair..þe floures so whit so eni mulc.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 1196 Thorough hir smokke wrought with silk, The flesh was seen as white as mylk.
a1500 (c1350) Octovian (Cambr.) (1986) l. 718 The stede was whyte as any mylke.
1573 New Custome ii. ii. sig. Cv Braue coopes in the churche, surplices as white as milke.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 86 How many cowards..who inward searcht, haue lyuers white as milke. View more context for this quotation
a1697 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 212 A long beard as white as milke.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. iv. 53 The younger and the Females were much more soft and tender, and the Skins of the latter generally as white as Milk.
1776 G. Colman Spleen ii. 26 My tongue is as white as milk, and loaded as thick as a curd!
1802 F. W. Blagdon tr. P. S. Pallas Trav. Southern Provinces Russ. Empire I. 353 The tartarised spirit of sal ammoniac rendered the water white as milk.
1885 W. B. Forfar Poems 20 We saw the queer Chineese [sic] Their fa-aces are so white as milk, With little squinney eyes.
1925 V. Lindsay Coll. Poems (rev. ed.) 164 Our sweethearts dance, with wands as white as milk, With veils of gold and robes of silver silk.
1990 A. S. Byatt Possession xix. 333 He heard the shower-streams break and rattle on Maud's invisible body, which he imagined to himself gently and vaguely, without urgency or precision, white as milk.
†b. as like as milk to milk [after classical Latin tam similis quam lacte lactist (Plautus)] . Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > the same [phrase]
(arrows) of the same flight1545
as like as milk to milk1638
as like as two peas1746
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §160 They are as like your own, as an egge to an egge, or milke to milke.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. iii. 551 It looks so like intemperance, as milk to milk.
P3.
† water of milk n. [probably after post-classical Latin aqua lactis (1510 or earlier)] Medicine Obsolete water distilled from milk, or from milk containing herbs and other medicinal substances; cf. milk water n. at Compounds 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cordial > [noun] > kinds of
water of milk1542
wormwood wine1565
milk water1602
wormwood water1612
mint water1639
persico1709
saffron cordial1728
peppermint water1756
pimento water1760
mint tea1764
peppermintc1770
rum shrub1788
ginger brandy1838
peppermint cordial1847
cloves1853
currant-shrub1856
shrub1861
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth x. sig. F.i Vse to drynke with whyte wyne the water of hawes, and the water of mylke.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Laict Eau de laict..also, water of milke or drawne by stillatorie from milke.
1761 F. Hoffmann Treat. Virtues & Uses Whey 12 And certainly water of milk, thus prepared by decoction, as artificial whey, has many excellent qualities above the common.
P4.
a. to give (also get, let) down (her, its, etc.) milk: to consent to be milked; to yield the expected assistance or profit. Also U.S. regional slang (southern): to divulge information (esp. under pressure), to tell all.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase] > consent
to give (also get, let) down (her, its, etc.) milkc1593
c1593 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta (1633) iv. H 2 b Ith. How now? hast thou the gold? Pil. Yes. Ith. But came it freely, did the Cow giue down her milk freely?
a1628 J. Preston Breast-plate of Faith (1630) vii. 181 They shall not give downe that milke for your comfort.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xvii. 198 A trick to stroke the skittish cow to get down her milk.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 187 The City was sullen, would not give down their milk, and pleaded..poverty.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. vi. 99 In the course of ten days she gave down her milk.
1875 Atlantic Monthly June 705/1 The mellow tones of Joe's naturally deep bass voice, subdued to softest accents of persuasion, as he coaxed a refractory cow to let down her milk.
1884 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 331/2 A host of kind and gentle milkers were constantly employed in obtaining the fluid, patting and stroking the cows..until they gave down the milk.
1973 W. Crawford Stryker 25 You're thinning out my patience... Give down your milk before you give me the ass.
1984 R. Wilder You All spoken Here 22 Let the milk down, tell it all; don't hold back; wring it out.
2000 Christian Sci. Monitor (Electronic ed.) 24 Nov. 22 One cow, Moonlight, still comes into the parlor each morning and lets down her milk for our own table.
†b. to wash the milk off one's liver: to purge oneself of cowardice. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > courage > encouragement > encourage or strengthen oneself [verb (reflexive)] > purge oneself of cowardice
to wash the milk off one's liver1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Wash thy milke off thy liuer (say we).
†c. U.S. colloquial. to bring (a person) to his (also her) milk: to bring (a person) to his or her senses; to compel to acquiesce or submit. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1836 Spirit of Times 9 July 162/2 ‘Oh!’, said Crump, ‘I thought that would bring you to your milk, so lead up.’
1857 J. G. Holland Bay-path 209 There ain't anything that'll bring you to your milk half so quick as a good double-and-twisted thrashin.
1857 S. A. Hammett Sam Slick in Texas iv. 22 When you cum to bring 'em down to thar milk, they'll turn out greener than Buffalo Bayou in September.
1885 C. A. Siringo Texas Cow Boy 49 That would bring them to their milk.
d. to come (also go) home with the milk: to arrive home early in the morning.
ΚΠ
c1850 Going home with Milk in Morning (ballad) Stop out on the spree, that's the motto for me And come in with the milk in the morning.
1885 Australasian Printers' Keepsake 142 As soon as ‘the cut’ was out we used to adjourn to Waldies..nobblerise for a bit, and then go home with the milk in the morning.
1917 P. G. Wodehouse Man with Two Left Feet 238 You talk of a man ‘going home with the milk’ when you mean that he sneaks in in the small hours of the morning.
1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. ii. 17 The family has nothing to do with the way the governess spends her evenings..except if she comes home with the milk after her evening out.
1947 W. S. Maugham Creatures of Circumstance 100 Every party's got to come to an end, and next day it doesn't matter much if you went home with the milk or if you left while the fun was in full swing.
e. U.S. slang. to strain one's milk: to overexert oneself, to tax oneself severely. Also of things: to test to the limit.
ΚΠ
1913 W. G. Pitts in Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 26 128 Bought a cow of farmer Jones... Jumped the fence and strained her milk.]
1935 J. Conroy World to Win 71 Take it slow and easy... Don't strain your milk.
1958 D. M. Camerer Damned wear Wings 75 We strained her milk some. Pulled her wings maybe ten degrees.
1982 R. Rucker 57th Franz Kafka 114 I strained my milk, and ended up wishing I'd got the android to help.
P5.
(the) milk of human kindness n. care and compassion for others; humanity.Usually with allusion to Shakespeare's use (see quot. a1616).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > mercy
milceeOE
mildheartnesseOE
oreOE
mildheartlaikc1175
mercya1225
misericordc1230
pitya1250
gracec1300
mildheadc1300
milcefulnessa1333
pietya1350
tree of mercyc1375
miserationa1382
mildc1390
piteousnessa1393
miltha1400
milthnessa1400
blithec1400
mercifulnessc1429
misericordy1479
mildfulness1489
clemence1490
clemency1553
pardon1555
pitifulness1555
milk of human kindnessa1616
mussy1823
mild-heartedness1849
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. v. 16 Yet doe I feare thy Nature, It is too full o' th' Milke of humane kindnesse . View more context for this quotation
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. iv. 57 The thunder of your words has soured the milk of human kindness in my breast!
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxxviii. 377 What's come of my milk of human kindness? It turns into curds and whey when I look at him.
1876 H. James Roderick Hudson iv. 123 Not you, dear friend; you would draw it too mild; you have too much of the milk of human kindness.
1956 G. Durrell My Family & Other Animals xviii. 237 Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.
1992 Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) 6 Sept. (New Delhi ed.) (Colour Mag.) 12/2 Here is a man..tough as nails on the outside but with the milk of human kindness sloshing inside.
2008 M. Stanton Immortal Sofa 31 But now your mouth is dry. The milk of human kindness tastes like a punch in the nose.
P6. it's no use crying over spilt milk and variants: it is futile to regret what cannot be altered or undone.
ΚΠ
1659 J. Howell Brit. Prov. 40/1 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) No weeping for shed milk.
1681 A. Yarranton England's Improvem.: Pt. II 107 Sir, there is no crying for shed milk, that which is past cannot be recall'd.
1738 J. Swift Treat. Polite Conversat. i. 27 'Tis a Folly to cry for spilt milk.
1824 L. L. Cameron Pink Tippet iii. 17 ‘There is no use in crying for shed milk,’ answered Betty.
1860 A. Trollope Castle Richmond I. vi. 113 It's no use sighing after spilt milk.
1893 New Eng. Mag. Sept. 88/2 His ‘sober second thought’ decided him to face the music, confess his fault and make the best of it, feeling it was of no use to ‘cry for spilled milk’, and leave the matter to terminate as it might.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxvii. 343 It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
1930 L. Charteris Last Hero xiv. 227 ‘Ass,’ said the Saint softly, ‘why cry over spilt milk? We're safe for hours yet, and that's all that matters.’
2000 Ottawa Sun (Electronic ed.) 23 Sept. 14 What he did is all water under the bridge and cannot be changed... Let bygones be bygones and stop crying over spilled milk.
P7.
trout in the milk n. highly convincing circumstantial evidence, esp. of a hypothesis otherwise difficult to prove.Thoreau's reference is to surreptitious dilution of milk with stream-water.
ΚΠ
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Excursions (1863) 31 Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes x My whole examination served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
1949 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 36 325 Professor Anderson marshals an impressive array of circumstantial evidence. Some of this is almost as convincing as the proverbial ‘trout in the milk’.
1985 Amer. Econ. Jrnl. 75 1124/1 While undoubtedly crude, these measures have a certain trout-in-the-milk appeal to them that contrasts with the unavoidable unpersuasiveness involved in using more definitive, but actually more uncertain, specifications.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. With the senses ‘made or consisting of, prepared with, or obtained from milk’.
milk arrowroot n. rare
ΚΠ
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 401 Milk arrowroot and a little brandy with it is useful.
milk biscuit n.
ΚΠ
1732 S.-Carolina Gaz. 29 Apr. 4/1 Prices of the following Goods... Milk Bisket 3 l. 15 s. per Barr.
a1813 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur More Lett. from Amer. Farmer (1995) 145 The Milk biscuit, the short Cake the newly baked apple Pye are Immediately produced.
1869 Ladies' Repository Sept. 167/2 I had a trifle better success in making some milk biscuit, though I could never guess right in regard to the amount of soda required.
1985 Callaloo No. 24. 324 Even my favorite dog bit the dust biting into a milk biscuit shaped like a bone.
milk-butter n.
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1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 215 When your Rowens come in,..do not lavish away your Milk-butter or Cheese.
1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Vale-farm 35 in Farm-rep. Making cheese of the first quality is more profitable than either making milk-butter or feeding veal.
milk-curd n.
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1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. xxv. 125 If the Matter forming them resembles Milk-Curds, the tumour is call'd Atheroma.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 339 Small patches of adherent milk-curd.
1910 Daily Chron. 5 Apr. 9/3 Coagulation or clotting of the casein or milk-curd occurs.
1981 W. Soyinka Aké x. 156 The vendor of milk-curds..has been banished by chromium boxes with sleek spouts.
milk-diet n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > diet > [noun] > specific diets
Lessian diet1646
milk-diet1671
flesh-diet1731
meagre1770
bean-diet1820
mono-diet1920
Hay diet1925
Mediterranean diet1928
Atkins1972
slim1977
F Plan Diet1982
1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2082* We take notice of..Several Observations concerning the Milk diet against the Gout.
1680 W. Temple Ess. Cure of Gout in Miscellanea 221 I concluded..if it continued, to confine my self wholly to the Milk-dyet.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xv. 141 I wish Polypheme had confined himself to his Milk Diet . View more context for this quotation
1851 in Househ. Words 8 Feb. 459/2 ‘Milk-diet’ almost explains itself, it being chiefly milk.
1988 Family Practice 5 231/2 Two rather different diets are described. The first is the milk diet.
milk-fat n.
ΚΠ
1901 Daily Chron. 7 Aug. 6/4 When a sample of milk..shall be found to contain less than 3 per cent. of milk fat,..it shall be presumed..that the milk is not genuine.
1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 25 June 23/5 The concentrates significantly increased the proportion of milkfat production in the autumn months.
milk flow n.
ΚΠ
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 94 Galactia Præmatura. Premature Milk-flow.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 97 Galactia Defectiva. Deficient Milk-flow.
1900 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 4 p. xi If a well fed milch goat be made to fast two days and phlorhizin be administered three times daily.., the milk flow stops entirely.
1993 Ontario Dairy Farmer Sept. 40/2 The smaller the milk hose, the more restriction on milk flow there is.
milk globule n.
ΚΠ
1851 Sci. Amer. 25 Jan. 152 On examining a little of the milk under the microscope, the peculiar granules of starch and flour may be readily seen, larger and more oval than the milk globules.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 230/2 This can only be done by churning, by which operation the milk-globules are caused..to adhere to each other without losing their individual existence.
1999 Daily Mail (Nexis) 26 Mar. 57 Cosmonaut Vasily Tsibilyev..swallowing milk globules floating in space aboard the Mir space station.
milk loaf n.
ΚΠ
1903 O. Simmons Bk. of Bread 311 A milk loaf should not be a Sally Lunn or a teacake and sweet, but a quickly fermented light loaf with extra good flour and addition of milk.
1996 Budapest Business Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 Oct. 39 The house bakery produced fresh loaves, fragrant brioche and milk loaves by 6 a.m. when the snack bar opened.
milk porridge n.
ΚΠ
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Giiii Baken, chese, and mylke porrage.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 15 May (1948) I. 270 My breakfast is milk porridge.
1845 Ainsworth's Mag. 7 368 Their daily food is generally..milk-porridge, potatoes and gravy.
1988 B. Cashman Private Charity & Public Purse (BNC) 30 The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge.
milk posset n.
ΚΠ
1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) Aug. ii. 6 For Breakfast, our usual Way is to send a Milk Posset, or plain Milk well breaded..to the Field, and repeat the same at Supper.
1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 21 June 822/1 One day a page of the great stable, called Frébois, was eating a hot milk-posset on the front of his box.
1991 S. K. Penman Reckoning (1992) xxi. 281 To drink, there would be sweet milk possets and free-flowing wine, and the spiced ale of the wassail cup.
† milk pottage n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 136v Quhill Blasour bled ane quart Of milk pottage inwart.
a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) ii. 23 Herrings and Milke-potage.
1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. i. 22 A little of some food that is easy of digestion; as water-pap, milk-pottage.
a1842 A. Cunningham Margaret & Mary in Poems & Songs (1847) ii. 87 The busy maids, with snooded tresses, Dish sweet milk pottage out in messes.
1877 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 40 189 To this was added..an equivalent amount of milk pottage or water gruel for breakfast or supper.
milk pudding n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > milk-puddings
whitepot1577
macaroni pudding1861
milk pudding1865
1865 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 145/1 Miss Lucilla sets her mind upon messes as ain't got no taste in them, and milk-puddings and stuff, like the most of the ladies.
1899 A. E. Holdsworth Valley Great Shadow iv Beef-tea and milk-pudding had had their day.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 163 Any kind of milk pudding is ‘slosh’ or ‘baby pudding’.
1995 K. Atkinson Behind Scenes at Museum (1996) viii. 233 Bunty and I were in the Co-op mobile shop, lurking amongst the tinned milk puddings.
milk scone n.
ΚΠ
1930 E. B. Bennion & J. Stewart Cake Manuf. xiv. 122 Soda scones, Scotch pan cakes, and milk scones,..can be baked on the hot plate.
milk-soup n.
ΚΠ
1767 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (new ed.) App. 342 Milk soop the Dutch way.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 191 From three and a half, to four pints [of milk] a day may be given to an adult..in the form of a milk soup.
1979 W. H. Robinson Illustr. Story Bk. 10/1 Serve us with herrings and milk-soup.
† milk-yeast n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home iv. 27 The table was laid again with the tea equipage and a goodly pile of still warm bread, redolent of milk yeast.
1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 86 Milk-yeast can grow fungus-like, if submerged.
b. With the senses ‘of, for, or in connection with milk’.
† milk ambry n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1594 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 199 One mylke awmerye.
milk bottle n.
ΚΠ
1831 Biblical Repertory 3 216 Their [sc. Arabs'] water and milk bottles or bags, are universally made of leather.
1905 G. F. M'Cleary Infant Mortality & Infants Milk Depôts viii. 129 (caption) Packing the milk bottles in ice before sending them to the city.
1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest v. 51 The other hand held a blackjack as big as a milk bottle.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren i. 9 Cigarette cards..are being replaced in flicking games by milk-bottle tops.
1994 Crank Autumn 24 A milk bottle teetered off a windowledge nine stories above his head and smashed at his feet.
† milk-bowie n. Scottish Obsolete
ΚΠ
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 222 To bear the milk-bowie nae pain was to me.
1876 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie 202 She could handle a milk-bowie muckle better than a pen.
milk-bowl n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > milk-pot or -can
milk stop1440
milk-vesselc1450
milking pot1511
boyne1532
milk pot1535
milk pan1557
milk-bowl1567
milk can1568
milk-kettle1572
1567 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1993) (modernized text) VIII. 218 To him 2 trestles,..2 milk bowls, a milk pan, [etc.].
1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. C1v They are maids of More-clacke, homely milke-bole things.
1779 Farmer's Mag. Mar. 59 Form it in the shape of a common wooden milk bowl.
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 17 A new milk-bowl, of wood skilfully carved.
1955 L. Woolley Alalakh iii. 118 Fragments..of a White Slip ware milk-bowl.
milk-bucket n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > pail > milk-pail
milking paila1425
milk-pail1440
milk-bucket1806
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking-pail
milking paila1425
milk-pail1440
milking pot1511
piggin1554
whinnock1555
coga1568
gawn1688
leglen1725
lead1741
milk-bucket1806
pipkin1855
1806 in E. C. Barker Austin Papers (1924) I. i. 102 2/12 [doz.] Milk bucketts, wood handles, $9, 1.50.
1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xxiii. 217 She persuaded her father to buy half-a-dozen tin cups and some milk-buckets.
1956 R. H. G. Thomson in C. Singer et al. Hist. Technol. (1957) II. 395 Timber was used..for..milk-buckets.
milk can n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > milk-pot or -can
milk stop1440
milk-vesselc1450
milking pot1511
boyne1532
milk pot1535
milk pan1557
milk-bowl1567
milk can1568
milk-kettle1572
1568 in R. W. Ambler et al. Farmers & Fishermen (1987) 63 A mylk cane and other tre vessell.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. vii. ii. 939 Small Copper milke Kans.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xliii. 153 Three pint-pots and a milk-can.
1896 Chicago Tribune 28 Feb. 1/3 Growlers [are] variable in size from a milk can or water pail down to the regulation tin growler holding two quarts.
1992 R. Mistry Such Long Journey 1 He let the dipper hang in the milk can.
milk car n.
ΚΠ
1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 602/2 Milk Car (Railway), one for carrying milk in cans. It is usually made with end platforms like a baggage car, and has the springs of a passenger car.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 69 Often they drove out in the milkcar.
2000 Newsday (Electronic ed.) 26 Nov. b2 The train had a milk car with a milkman who loaded and unloaded milk cans.
milk-cart n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > milk
milk-cart1788
milk float1864
1788 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 35 Two Broadwheel Carts, Two other Do, a Milk Do.
1794 J. Holt Gen. View Agric. County of Lancaster 15 Of late these milk-carts have been covered with painted canvass upon hoops.
1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 64 The milk-cart was met before it reached the town.
1892 R. Kipling & W. Balestier Naulahka ix. 89 There isn't enough real, old-fashioned downright rustle and razzle-dazzle..to run a milk-cart.
1996 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 24 Sept. He also has five horses, including Ranger, the oldest surviving Edinburgh milk-cart horse.
milk carton n.
ΚΠ
1955 Science 2 Dec. 1076/1 This company..manufactures a wide variety of business papers, specialty papers and paperboards, and milk-carton and food-carton paperboards.
1964 ‘E. Lathen’ Accounting for Murder (1965) vi. 46 He mounted the stairs..startling two typists who were precariously balancing milk cartons.
1986 Auckland Star 6 Feb. a2 The faces of missing children stare out from grocery bags, milk cartons and posters.
milk cellar n.
ΚΠ
1753 World 22 Nov. 285 Captain Daisy himself was found in a milk-cellar.
1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 355 A woman at a milk-cellar..was delivered [etc.].
1896 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 217 I heard madame scolding him in the milk cellar.
milk churn n.
ΚΠ
1478 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 82/1 For..hir mylk kyrne.
1885 Sci. Amer. 11 July 18 The soap is then pumped..into a crutcher, nearly like a milk churn.
1931 A. Uttley Country Child iii. 48 He was backed into the loading place, waiting for the milk-churns.
1985 A. Douglas Goods i. 16 He learned to rig the notorious milk-churn bomb to explode as the target passed by.
milk-cog n.
ΚΠ
1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Mulctra, vel, um: mulctrale: a milk cog.
1899 A. C. Cameron Hist. Fettercairn 269 Near the cross were exposed for sale a few tubs, butter kits, and milk-cogues.
1906 T. Sinton Poetry of Badenoch 21 Presenting him with the milk-cog, she assured him that so long as a stave of it remained [etc.].
milk-combine n. rare
ΚΠ
1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace 309 Working relations with such a ‘milk-combine’ as has been projected for Britain.
milk company n.
ΚΠ
1855 I. C. Pray Mem. J. G. Bennett 67 There were not less than six joint-stock milk companies in London.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 372 The milk companies..are saved most of the costs of local distribution by delivering the orange juice on their milk route.
2000 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 27 Oct. 12 Amalgamation discussions between Melbourne milk company Bonlac and the New Zealand Dairy Board were heartening.
milk cooler n.
ΚΠ
1794 T. Wedge Gen. View Agric. Chester 43 The milk..is poured..into a leaden milk cooler.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 900 Stone milk-coolers.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 412/2 In 1878, at Bristol, the special awards were all for dairy appliances—milk-can for conveying milk long distances, churn for milk,..milk cooler, [etc.].
1984 J. Wilcox Mod. Baptists ix. 58 Over by the milk cooler someone dropped a plate.
milk crate n.
ΚΠ
1958 ‘Miss Read’ Storm in Village xix. 206 The rain was making music upon the empty milk crates beside the door-scraper.
1974 Times 2 Jan. 12/1 Robin Young went to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park... He found the milkcrate orators (soap-boxes being a thing of the past).
1991 Details Apr. 110/1 They were drinking out of jelly jars instead of glasses and sitting on milk crates around the kitchen table.
milk-dish n.
ΚΠ
1787 J. Thelwall Poems Var. Subj. I. 75 Who now must Mab's resentment rue? Who let her milk-dish empty stand?
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 900 After it has cooled, the milk is passed through the milk-sieve into the milk-dishes.
1969 G. E. Evans Farm & Village ix. 103 The milk-dish, used for holding the milk while the cream was separated from it.
milk ejection n.
ΚΠ
1942 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 50 299 Pitocin injections following the use of any other substance was..resorted to as a test for the completeness of the milk ejection.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. June 540/3 The problems related to the process of ‘milk ejection’ in the cow.
1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) x. vi. 426/1 The nervous signals in the nipple produced by suckling pass to the brain, where they cause the release of oxytocin to stimulate milk ejection.
milk gland n.
ΚΠ
1871 Sci. & Nature July 92 The use of a milk gland in its least specialized form requires at least a sucking mouth.
1892 E. Haeckel Hist. Creation 313 These..fatty..glands..changed into milk-glands.
1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xiii. 320 The saucer-shaped depression into which the milk-glands open.
1956 Nature 24 Mar. 582/1 In studying the function of the milk gland, with the view of increasing milk production, [etc.].
1995 Mother & Baby June 48/1 The hormone oxytocin makes the muscle fibres around the milk glands contract and squeeze the milk into the milk ducts.
milk jug n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > jug > for milk or cream
cream-jug1773
pourie1787
milk jug1820
1820 S. J. Arnold Devil's Bridge i. i. 6 (stage direct.) When Marcelli enters, followed by Claudine, he has a spade and a basket; Claudine, a milk jug.
1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. xii. 170 An intimation accompanied the milk-jug, that the milk must be fresh.
1881 Harper's Mag. Apr. 648/2 We were glad of the tea..served in a brilliant silver urn..with sugar bowl and milk jug to match.
1977 B. MacLaverty Secrets 105 He propped the menu against the silver milk jug.
† milk keeler n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1600 in W. F. Shaw Mem. Eastry (1870) 226 Three milk keelers.
1651 Mayflower Descendant X. 161 2 milk keelers & 2 other keelers.
1795 Sale Catal. in Notes & Queries (1951) 14 Apr. 158/1 Three milk keelers.
† milk-kettle n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > milk-pot or -can
milk stop1440
milk-vesselc1450
milking pot1511
boyne1532
milk pot1535
milk pan1557
milk-bowl1567
milk can1568
milk-kettle1572
1572 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1994) (modernized text) IX. 188 To Rebecca Dygbye..the little dripping pan, the pewter basin, the little milk kettle, [etc.].
1596 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 271 The milke-house stuffe..j milke kettle 24s.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 993 Brass milk-kettle.
1869 Sci. Amer. 20 Feb. 124/2 Milk-kettle—Hermaun Friedlander, New York city. The object of this invention is to prevent milk from boiling over and from creating the consequent very disagreeable odor.
milk lorry n.
ΚΠ
1939 G. Household Rogue Male 110 I saw..a couple of milk lorries bobbing about..to collect the cans set out on wooden platforms by the road.
1971 W. J. Burley Guilt Edged i. 5 The milk lorry on its way back to the factory after morning collections from farms.
1998 A. O'Hanlon Talk of Town (1999) ii. ii. 113 Into the middle of the road he fell and was run over by a milk lorry coming the other way.
milk-pail n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > pail > milk-pail
milking paila1425
milk-pail1440
milk-bucket1806
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking-pail
milking paila1425
milk-pail1440
milking pot1511
piggin1554
whinnock1555
coga1568
gawn1688
leglen1725
lead1741
milk-bucket1806
pipkin1855
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 338 (MED) Mylke stop, or payle: Multra, vel multrum.
1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xxxv. § 415 A dairy-maid milketh out milk latching it in a milk-paile.
1792 J. Byng Diary 9 June in Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 54 The milk maids here yet retain some commemeration of Maia, by decking their milk pails with garlands.
1881 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Austral. Grazier's Guide (1994) II. xxx. 253 Water is provided in which the milkers wash their hands, dipping in the milk-pail being stictly prohibited.
1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xxiv. 286 Old pop skull, the kind we made by freezing a milk pail of cider.
2000 Newsday (N.Y.) (Electronic ed.) 10 Sept. 14 Beyond..a steel milk pail on the limestone center island, an antique wood wagon in a corner..there are few reminders of the building's roots.
† milk-piggin n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1884 ‘C. E. Craddock’ in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 371 Her bonnet had fallen to the ground, and her milk-piggin was rolling away.
1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains iii. 57 She carried her milk-piggin.
milk pitcher n.
ΚΠ
1848 Amer. Whig Rev. 7 203 ‘And thy cranium,’ rejoined Meton, ‘shall be compared to a milk pitcher with a straight handle.’
1920 W. D. Howells Vacation of Kelwyns 31 She let herself into the kitchen, with the milk-pitcher in one hand, the teapot in the other.
1992 C. P. Estés Women who run with Wolves vi. 170 From there he dove right into the milk pitcher.
milk pot n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > milk-pot or -can
milk stop1440
milk-vesselc1450
milking pot1511
boyne1532
milk pot1535
milk pan1557
milk-bowl1567
milk can1568
milk-kettle1572
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges iv. 19 Then opened she a mylke pot, & gaue him to drynke.
1711 E. Freke Diary 16 Oct. in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1912) 18 157 1 New Milke pott & Its Cover.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxvii. 120 Mr. Bumble..made a closer inspection of the milk-pot.
1893 F. Mackenzie Cruisie Sketches ii. 15 Her under lip jutted out like the lip of a milk pot.
1996 Aramco World Sept. 41 One roundel..is called indhoni, ‘the resting place of the milk pot’.
milk production n.
ΚΠ
1869 Galaxy Mag. Apr. 561 These [stables] are cleaned out twice a day at least, so that the air the cows breathe is not foul with gases pernicious to health and fatal to milk production.
1897 Overland Monthly May 521/2 In the dairy industry,..this development may be of the greatest importance in increasing the milk production and fixing values.
1910 Morning Post 28 June 3/7 Capacity for milk-production, for early maturity [etc.]..are definitely fixed, and definitely transmitted from good sires.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Mar. 52/2 The use of the bovine growth hormone to increase milk production could lead to a 50 percent reduction in the number of dairy farms by 2000.
milk saucepan n.
ΚΠ
1907 Yesterday's Shopping 213/2 Milk saucepan with earthenware lining.
1990 S. Maitland Three Times Table (1991) iii. ii. 196 She slung the milk saucepan casually on top of the other unwashed dishes in the sink, unbothered now by the mess.
milk secretion n.
ΚΠ
1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 7 The Physiology of Milk-Secretion.
1900 G. M. Gould & W. L. Pyle Anomalies & Curiosities Med. III. 142 There was no milk-secretion in her breasts.
1994 Nature 22 Sept. 292/3 Milk secretion without suckling would be a curious biological phenomenon.
milk shop n.
ΚΠ
1673 in J. A. Johnston Probate Inventories Lincoln 1661–1714 (1991) 45 Milke shop..Sorm rops and Coller and soum tooles.
1844 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 7 Dec. 364/1 M. M. Delacour and Delanos have distributed throughout the capital a vast number of little milk shops.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 797/2 The privy council has issued an order, under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act of 1878, called the Dairies, Milkshops, and Cowsheds Order.
1990 P. Pope Rich pass By 121 A swarthy man with a large stomach came out of the milk shop.
milk-sieve n.
ΚΠ
1313 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 132 j milcsive ijd.
1794 Suffolk Inventory in Notes & Queries (1949) 8 Jan. 2/2 Milk sieve, large boiler, 2 pails.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 900 After it has cooled, the milk is passed through the milk-sieve into the milk-dishes.
1909 R. P. Wright Standard Cycl. Mod. Agric. & Rural Econ. IV. 102/2 Milk Sieve or Strainer.—A very large variety of sieves or strainers is on the market.
2014 G. Moatsou & E. Moschopoulou in B. H. Özer & G. Akdemir-Evrendilek Dairy Microbiol. & Biochem. i. 7 Possible sources of contamination of raw milk by Pseudomonas spp. are milk pipelines,..milk-meter, milk sieve and the suction hose in milk tanker.
† milk sithe n. Obsolete (see sythe n.)
ΚΠ
1568 Jok & Jynny 28 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS f. 137 Ane milk syth.
1808 E. Hamilton Cottagers of Glenburnie ix. 201 There has been lang a hole in the milk sythe.
† milk-skeel n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 81 A mylke skele, mulgarium.
milk-stall n.
ΚΠ
1871 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 415/1 The milk-stalls are busier than the wine-shops. The people are gay and jolly, but very decent and clean and orderly.
1909 Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 4/7 The old ladies who kept a milk-stall in the Mall..were dispossessed on the making of the new roadway to Buckingham Palace.
2000 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 11 Aug. 14 Her..mobile milk stall selling milkshakes and flavoured milk.
milk stand n.
ΚΠ
1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 219 In the new mylkhouse..a mylke stande.
1789 Suffolk Inventory in Notes & Queries (1947) 18 Oct. 449/2 Two milk stands, 8 milk keelers.
1862 G. B. Emerson in G. B. Emerson & C. L. Flint Man. Agric. 259 A very convenient milk stand is represented in figure 88. It is made of light seasoned wood in an octagonal form, and will hold one hundred and seventy-six pans of the ordinary form and size.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea vi. 54 Everybody would have to have his milk-stand hand-painted next summer and keep an embroidered centerpiece on it.
1990 Comments on Etymol. 19 iv. 13 The trick is often used when handling goats for getting a first freshner [sic] used to the milkstand.
† milk stop n. Obsolete rare
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > milk-pot or -can
milk stop1440
milk-vesselc1450
milking pot1511
boyne1532
milk pot1535
milk pan1557
milk-bowl1567
milk can1568
milk-kettle1572
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 338/1 Mylke stop, or payle, multra, vel multrum.
milk supply n.
ΚΠ
1867 Sci. Amer. 7 Dec. 356 The result of this care, which costs but little, is that the milk supply of Paris is proverbially excellent.
1905 F. L. Dodd Munic. Milk 13 The Borough of Sunderland..has started a movement for the improvement of the milk supply.
1981 F. Manolson & A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry vii. 163/1 In Britain..90 per cent of the total milk supply is provided by Friesians.
† milk-sye n. Obsolete (sye n.2)
ΚΠ
?c1460 Medulla Gram. (BL Add.) in A. Way Promptorium Parvulorum (1843) I. 79 Colum, a mylke syhe.
1830 Mr. Nichol in J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 165 The whole mass..with the cream and new milk, is run through the searce into the milk-sye.
† milk tankard n. Obsolete
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1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xxi. 253/2 He beareth Vert, a Dary womans Tankerds, or Milk Tankerds, or two Tankerds of Milk.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. vi. 297/1 The Milk Tankard is the same [as the Water Tankard], wide at the bottom, and narrower at the top, sans handle and mouth spout, being they are carried on a Horse like Panniers.
milk tanker n.
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1947 Times 8 Mar. 4/2 Milk tankers carrying supplies for 400,000 Londoners from creameries in Shropshire.
1965 in P. Jennings Living Village (1968) 66 The milk..is collected by a milk tanker.
1972 Guardian 16 Oct. 10/2 Until the rains came..villagers were collecting water in buckets from milk tankers in High Furness.
milk tin n.
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1853 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide II. 518/2 6 Milk tins, 2s. each.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Milk-tin, the metal vessel in which the milk is set to cream.
1907 J. London Road iii. 70 He took the small milk-tin and climbed down the bank.
1979 F. Iyayi Violence vii. 93 She bought one bonga fish, three milk tins of garri, a bunch of bitter leaves and half a bottle of palm oil.
† milk tray n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1590 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1989) (modernized text) V. 215 My greatest chest, 1 milk tray, and 1 little table with a hutch in it.
1656 Court Proc. in J. H. Pleasants Arch. Maryland (1937) LIV. 80 A Lest of The houshould stufe... 3 Milke Trayes 2 Milke Booles.
1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) 325 A Trugg, a Milk-tray or such like.
1802 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 407 The milk-trays..should be fleet.
milk truck n.
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1848 Q. Rev. Dec. 52 This department constructs and maintains for the traffic on 393 miles of rails all the requisite passenger-carriages, luggage-vans,..milk-trucks (principally to supply Liverpool), and break-waggons.
1910 Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 1/3 The..express..ran into a milk truck and a guard's van.
1946 E. Hodgins Mr. Blandings builds his Dream House (1947) vii. 94 Her husband got run over by the milk truck.
1973 R. L. Simon Big Fix (1974) xx. 170 A trio of milk trucks from a dairy.
2000 N.Y. Times 6 Apr. f12/2 In this bucolic area north of Manhattan, a white milk truck still moves through the dark and lumbers to a stop.
milk tub n.
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1579 S. Novimola Despauterii Grammaticæ Institutionis Lib. VII (new ed.) iii. 104 Mulctra, ane Kit, or mylk tub.
1666 Edinb. Test. LXXII. f. 194, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Tuo milk tubis.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1017 The milk-tub is covered up by a board.
1994 J. Galloway Foreign Parts i. 5 You realised you had no hands free for the wee milk tubs.
milk vein n.
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1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) May vi. 74 Feel if her Milk-vein is large.
1799 A. Young Agric. Lincs. viii. 290 These cows..shew good milk veins.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 445 The milk-veins along the lower part of the abdomen become larger.
1858 C. L. Flint Milch Cows 52 Large and prominent milk-veins must extend from the navel back to the udder.
1985 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 51 338 She finally consulted her physician who diagnosed a ‘stoppage of a milk vein’ and recommended lancing.
milk wagon n.
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1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 661/2 Before the area gate of each one of the half-dozen hotises near, stands a milk wagon with its two bright jars of dilution.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxxvi. 544 A horse that had just retired from a long and honorable career as the moving impulse of a milk wagon.
1883 Wheelman Apr. 28/1 A superannuated 'bus-driver, with a conveyance strongly resembling a milk-wagon.
1960 T. Hughes Lupercal 46 Light and birdsong come Walloping up roads with the milk wagon.
1986 New Yorker 2 June 48/2 We had thirty-five milkers, all done by hand, and the milk wagon came at 8 a.m.
milk yield n.
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1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 273/1 The milk yield given above makes an average of 9860 pounds a year for eight cows with first calf.
1945 Daily Sci. Abstr. 7 3 Crossbred cows..gave an average milk yield.
1992 Independent 10 Apr. 8/4 Some British consumers have already, unwittingly, drunk milk from cows injected with a genetically engineered growth hormone to boost their milk yield by up to a third.
c. With the sense ‘involved or engaged in the production of milk’.
milk boy n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > dairy staff
dey1483
deyar15..
dairyman1784
milk boy1847
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farmer > milkman
dey1483
milker?a1500
deyar15..
dairyman1784
cowman1828
milkman1838
milk boy1847
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of milk > deliverer of milk
milk boy1847
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) vii. 59 The groom..did not care to descend to ring the bell; and so prayed a passing milk-boy to perform that office for him.
1884 Harper's Mag. June 70/1 Chantrey was a milk-boy in Sheffield.
1964 F. Warner Early Poems 13 A milk-boy, whistling down the wind.
1991 T. Healy It might have been Jerusalem 6 You were just a wee milk boy then.
† milk folk n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vi. 67 The Noisy Milk Folks, crying, A can of Milk, Ladies.
milk-girl n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > dairy staff > dairymaid
deya1000
dey-wife1495
milkmaid1552
cream-pot1580
milkmadge1582
dey-woman1598
whowball1598
dairymaid1616
milk-girl1789
dey-girl1828
milkeress1839
gopi1880
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farmer > milkmaid
deya1000
dey-wife1495
milkmaid1552
cream-pot1580
milkmadge1582
dey-woman1598
whowball1598
dairymaid1616
milk-girl1789
dey-girl1828
milkeress1839
gopi1880
1789 G. Colman Ut Pictura Poesis! 10 (stage direct.) Enter Milk Girl, with Pails.
1810 Splendid Follies III. 66 [Madam Lynx] having caught her immaculate husband chucking the milk-girl under the chin.
1900 S. J. Weyman Sophia iii. 39 A couple of chairmen and a milk-girl were looking on grinning.
1983 C. Reid Pea Soup (BNC) 51 Why did the comic tutor Betray the milk-girl's suitor?
† milk-lass n. Obsolete rare
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a1690 G. Fox Jrnl. (1827) I. 79 He told my troubles..to his servants, so that it was got among the milk-lasses.
d. Of animals: producing milk. Also milk cow n.
† milk ass n. Obsolete
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1688 S. de Paz Let. 23 Nov. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 157 Though I can (to my sorrow) say why milk-asses are provided for.
1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 57 Milk-cow, milk-ass, milch cow, milch ass.
1814 H. L. Stanhope Let. 28 Feb. in I. Bruce Nun of Lebanon (1951) III. xix. 247 I..have a few Ewes, a little cow, & milk ass.
† milk camel n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xxxii. C Thirtie mylck camels.
† milk ewe n. Obsolete
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1381 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 4 (MED) Also ii stoppes for melk ewen.
1522 Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes XXXIII. f. 63 The..pasturing of ane hundretht mylk ȝowis.
1674 in C. B. Gunn Rec. Baron Court Stitchill (1905) 73 Ane milk ewe.
milk goat n.
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1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 335 Vij milke gotes.
a1657 W. Bradford Coll. Verse (1974) 213 A lamb, or kid, was forty shillings' price; Men were earnest for them, lest they should rise. And a milk-goat was at three or four pound.
1854 Littell's Living Age 23 Dec. 615/1 He stole a milk goat of ours last week.
1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock xvi. 195 The four main breeds of milk goats today are the Anglo-Nubian, British Saanen, British Alpine, and British Toggenburg.
milk sheep n.
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1472 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 169 Na schep..bot mylk schep.
1981 L. Alderson in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry v. 122/2 Currently the demand for milksheep ewes far exceeds the supply.
† milk sow n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1797 Monthly Mag. 3 531 A milk sow was offered at the opening of the assembly.
e. Designating the deciduous (temporary) teeth of a young mammal. Cf. milk tooth n.
milk canine n.
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1874 Philos. Trans. 1873 (Royal Soc.) 163 500 The lower milk-canine of Ursus.
1914 Science 31 July 159/2 The canine of Eoanthropus..resembles the milk canines of Homo sapiens.
1960 Current Anthropol. 1 228/1 One specimen, a left lower milk canine, is very heavily worn and provides little useful information.
1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones i. 24 The boy was about to lose the milk canine or eyetooth from his upper jaw.
milk dentition n.
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1848 R. Owen in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 4 i. 40 During the period of the milk-dentition.
1863 T. H. Huxley Evid. Man's Place Nature i. 23 The milk dentition consists of 20 teeth.
1908 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 199 393 (title) On the skull, mandible, and milk dentition of Palæomastodon.
1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) vii. 37 In mammals there are two series only, a juvenile or milk dentition and an adult dentition.
1986 A. S. Romer & T. S. Parsons Vertebr. Body (ed. 6) xi. 333 In mammals..there is no tooth replacement apart from the succession of ‘permanent’ teeth for a ‘milk dentition’ in the front of the mouth.
milk incisor n.
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1850 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 140 496 The milk incisors and canines replaced by the permanent ones.
1897 Amer. Naturalist 31 686 The upper milk canine is larger than either of the milk incisors.
1976 Science 9 July 141/2 The central upper milk incisors display evidence of developmental enamel hypoplasia.
milk molar n.
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1848 R. Owen in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 4 i. 22 The second premolar..lies beneath the third milk-molar.
1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 910 The position of the milk-molars with regard to the permanent ones.
1898 B. P. Colton Physiol. vii. 202 The first of these, often called the ‘six-year molars’, are just back of the hindermost ‘milk molars’.
1951 Man 51 25 We can compute means and estimates of error for some overall dimensions of the lower first milk molar.
1996 A. Walker & P. Shipman Wisdom of Bones i. 24 A few weeks or perhaps a month before the boy died, this permanent premolar had replaced the second milk molar.
milk tusk n.
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1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 211 The first or milk tusks of an elephant never grow to any size.
1820 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 110 144 (title) On the milk tusks, and organ of hearing of the Dugong.
1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. xii His mother..told him before his little milk tusks had dropped out, that elephants who were afraid always got hurt.
1988 C. McWilliam Case of Knives (1989) xxix. 245 I treasured a teething ring of ivory; was it made of milk tusks of elephants, or have they only one growth?
C2.
a. Objective.
(a)
milk-dealer n.
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1794 P. Foot Gen. View Agric. Middlesex xxvi. 82 The cows..are milked by the milk-dealers.
1888 Overland Monthly Apr. 394/1 Every year furnishes a new lot of milk dealers, most of whom drop out long before the year closes.
2000 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) (Electronic ed.) 2 June b18 He was past president of the Pennsylvania Association of Milk Dealers and the Greater Pittsburgh Dairy Association.
milk-drinker n.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Galactopote, a Milk Drinker.
1854 R. Moffat Matabele Jrnls. 5 Sept. (1945) I. 288 I and my people are the only milk drinkers in the camp.
1995 Economist 19 Aug. 12/1 Many people who wear fur-lined gloves have barely heard of leghold traps, much less seen one in use; milk drinkers do not see the calves torn from their mothers.
milk-heater n.
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1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 603/2 Milk Heater, a furnace arrangement for heating milk for cheese-making.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 5 Oct. 5/2 Ovens, grillers,..milk-heaters,..sterilisers, and other things are all there.
milk producer n.
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1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 29 Sept. 163/2 There is a story about a bull running, full butt, tail on end, into a locomotive a story of which we were just now reminded, by reading some resolutions set forth by a society called the Milk Producers' Association.
1870 Rep. Comm. Agric. 1869 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 449 The annual meeting of the Milk Producers' Association of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Feb. 163/3 It is the responsibility of the milk producer to ensure..that only milk of the highest quality leaves the farm.
1990 Canad. Farming Summer 5/1 A number of provincial agriculture organizations have joined the program including..Alberta Milk Producers.
milk seller n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of milk
milkman1589
milk seller1600
milk carrier1794
milk-vendor1851
milk1859
milkie1886
milko1905
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 132 Next vnto them stand the milke-sellers.
1857 T. H. Lewin Let. 19 Nov. in Lewin Lett. (1909) II. v. 175 His companion is a milk-seller with..a brass vessel of milk in his hand.
1909 Daily Chron. 3 June 6/4 The dairy farmer, but more especially the milk seller, has already been prepared for drastic changes in the practice of his work.
1984 Pacific Affairs 57 151 This is an ethnographic and historical study of the village of Phulia Tola near Patna, populated almost entirely by Gowallas, traditionally cow-keepers and milk-sellers.
milk strainer n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > milk straining > milk strainer
milksile1459
sile1459
sye1468
sythe1568
siling-dish1574
milk strainer1668
sile-dish1668
milsey1697
siler1856
1668 Court Proc. 10 Jan. in J. H. Pleasants Arch. Maryland (1937) LIV. 725 To 1 milke straner.
1711 E. Freke Diary 16 Oct. in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1912) 18 205 1 Milk strainer & 1 skiming Dish.
1872 W. S. Jones Let. 20 Mar. in G. N. Jones Florida Plantation Rec. (1927) 199 The milk strainer is also in bad repair.
1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry iv. 87/1 Milk strainers in which a disposable milk filter is inserted are available.
milk-tester n.
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1852 Sci. Amer. 15 May 275 If the milk-tester is what it is said to be, we should probably soon hear of it on this side of the water.
1885 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 140/2 The milk-tester..owes its efficiency to the relative opacity of pure milk and milk and water.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 413/1 In 1897, at Manchester, special awards were made for fruit baskets and milk-testers.
1975 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 60 263 The wagon carried different kinds of plows and planters, a cultivator, a cotton chopper..a milk tester and other appliances useful in making practical demonstrations.
milk-vendor n.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of milk
milkman1589
milk seller1600
milk carrier1794
milk-vendor1851
milk1859
milkie1886
milko1905
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 191/2 The milk-vendors sell..twenty quarts per day.
1961 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 20 396/1 Consider the highly specialized roles which different Indian and Pakistani groups discharge in their very small Bangkok community, as bank guards, milk vendors, cattle traders, and hardware merchants.
(b)
milk-bearing adj.
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1855 Sir E. Smith in Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 28 The milk-bearing tissue so readily inferred to exist from the white exuding juice of the cut dandelion [etc.].
1993 Amer. Hist. Rev. 98 401 In a certain sense, Linnaeus's focus on the milk-bearing breast was at odds with the trends that found beauty (although not necessarily salvation) in the virginal breast.
† milk-breeding adj. Obsolete
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Lactifical Milk-breeding, milk-making, milk-yeelding.
milk-curdling adj.
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1880 Nature 23 Dec. 169/1 The second lecture chiefly relates to pepsin and the digestion of proteids; digestive proteolysis; the milk-curdling ferment.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 287 ‘Rennin’, a milk-curdling ferment.
milk-drinking adj.
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a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 7 (MED) Drihten þu dest þe lof of milc drinkende childre muðe.
1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 16 Oct. 492/3 The hypochondriacs and the milk-drinking lady had wandered away.
1992 Current Anthropol. 33 409/1 Sometimes some knowledge is also necessary, and in the case of the milk-drinking San a very basic textbook in evolutionary biology would have done.
milk-giving adj.
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1639 L. Lawrence tr. San Pedro de Diego Small Treat. betwixt Arnalte & Lucenda 2 The labouring Oxe, nor the Milke-giving Cow Did e're graze there, or hath the sharpe-edg'd Plough Beene ever knowne to furrow up that Land.
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xxx. 120 The loss of one nice quiet milk-giving cushy cow.
1898 Daily News 4 Apr. 2/1 The productive or milk-giving [rubber] trees.
1985 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 14 394 Brandes identifies three areas of conscious comparison between animals and humans..: second physical qualities, e.g. oversized breasts may cause a woman to be likened to a milk-giving cow.
† milk-making adj. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Lactifical Milk-breeding, milk-making, milk-yeelding.
milk-marketing adj.
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1933 Statutory Rules & Orders No. 789. 21 This scheme may be cited as the Milk Marketing Scheme, 1933, and applies to England and Wales.
1936 A. Thirkell August Folly i. 10 A very fine herd of cows which supply Grade A milk, at prices fixed by the Milk Marketing Board.
1968 Listener 4 July 15/2 In the new milk marketing case this truth is emphasised... Under the Milk Marketing Scheme the milk producers sell their milk to the Milk Marketing Board.
1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 23 July b1/4 The legislation would change the federal government's milk marketing order system.
milk-producing adj. (and n.)
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1847 Commerc. Rev. South & West Sept. 132 Though he implies that this plant was the sugar cane, I think the plant intended by Pliny was some one of the milk producing trees of the African tropics.
1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 15 Mar. 81/2 We are inclined to believe that no milking machine can be invented, that will be a decided success, without injuring the milk-producing capabilities of cows.
1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. 25 The Cagaitéra (Eugenia dysenterica)..with white flowers and milk-producing leafage.
1946 Nature 12 Oct. 523/1 The recording movement may..progress to greater service to the milk-producing industry.
1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock ii. 25 By 1955, 18 per cent of cattle in milk producing herds in England and Wales were Ayrshires.
milk-yielding adj. (and n.)
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Laictier, milkie,..milke-yeelding.
1897 Daily News 28 Sept. 8/3 The herd is entirely of the milk-yielding..Ayrshires.
1998 Dairy Industries Internat. (Electronic ed.) May 18 Although there is a tradition of keeping milk yielding draught and dairy animals, milk production has always been negligible.
b. Parasynthetic and instrumental.
milk-barred adj.
ΚΠ
1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 197 Jasper and chalcedony, And milk-barr'd onyx-stones.
milk-blended adj.
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1902 Westm. Gaz. 3 Mar. 11/3 The compound called ‘milk-blended butter’.
1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 612 Milk-blended Butter means any mixture produced by mixing butter with milk.
milk-borne adj.
ΚΠ
1897 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 60 895 Interim reports on an outbreak of Milk-borne Enteric fever in Clifton.
1904 Daily Chron. 14 July 5/1 Epidemics of definite ‘milk-borne’ diseases.
1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 260 Maternal IgG, acquired either across the placenta (in humans) or in the milk, and milk-borne IgA play a major role in passive protection of the newborn.
milk-budded adj.
ΚΠ
1865 A. C. Swinburne Dolores 18 And milk-budded myrtles with Venus..he trod.
milk-faced adj.
ΚΠ
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xx. 136 This milk-faced, and tyger-hearted fop.
1815 H. H. Milman Fazio iii. i That milk-faced mercy will come whimpering to me.
1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) She was that milk-faac'd she hardlin's dost speäk to a man when she seed him.
1990 M. Levine Deep Cover i. 40 At his feet sat a group of silently adoring young milk-faced federal agents.
milk-fatted adj.
ΚΠ
1931 Times 16 Mar. 1/4 Chickens, finest milk-fatted, carriage paid, 2s. 2d. per lb.
milk-fed adj.
ΚΠ
1802 J. Baillie Ethwald: Pt. Second ii. iii, in Series Plays II. 278 As the dead shepherd's scrip and knotted crook Go to his milk-fed son?
1895 T. Hardy Jude iii. viii. 225 Her unexpected presence there had destroyed at a stroke his momentary taste for strong liquor as completely as if it had whisked him back to his milk-fed infancy.
1992 Canad. Fiction Mag. No. 80. 17 Every milkfed kid in North America's got perfect teeth.
milk-hued adj.
ΚΠ
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge i, in Graphic 2 Jan. 18/1 New, milk-hued canvas.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Aug. 5/1 The well-known milk-hued gem.
† milk-outstretched adj. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xii. xxxi. 219 The gentle beast with milke out stretched teat; (As nurses custome) proffred thee to feed.
milk-washed adj.
ΚΠ
1598 F. Rous Thule i. sig. B 4 Viceina whose most pure milk-washed hart Neuer supposde what fraud before did plot, Told him [etc.].
c. Similative.
(a)
milk-bloom n.
ΚΠ
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxi. viii, in Maud & Other Poems 70 The slender acacia would not shake One long milk-bloom on the tree.
(b)
milk-blue adj.
ΚΠ
1865 R. W. Buchanan Undertones (ed. 2) iii. 52 Her, after summer noon, what time her foot Startled with moonlight motion milk-blue stalks Of hyacinths in a dim forest glade.
1873 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Dec. 776/1 The opal..is rarely larger, with its milk-blue beauty, illuminated by sun-tints, than a nut.
1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 77 The milk-blue, morning lake.
1945 W. de la Mare Burning-glass & Other Poems 41 Pulsing beneath the silken skin The milk-blue blood rills out and in.
1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-drill xc. 65 Moon's barge over milk-blue water.
1994 C. McCarthy Crossing 26 She found these pale unborn still warm and gawking on the ground, milkblue and near translucent in the dawn.
milk-dim adj.
ΚΠ
1926 H. Read Coll. Poems 55 Oh, turn your milk dim eyes To outer things!
milk-green adj.
ΚΠ
1912 D. H. Lawrence Let. 2 June (1962) I. 130 The pale, milk-green river.
1991 J. Cooper Polo (BNC) 217 The vast unclouded..sky..was only broken by the occasional..fringe of..milk-green gum trees.
milk-mild adj.
ΚΠ
c1800 Misc. (1829) 52 Grass cut Virginia, or milk-mild Oronoko [tobacco].
1853 G. A. Sala Househ. Words 12 Mar. 28/1 A harmless milk-mild little roll [sc. a cheap cigar].
1893 Littell's Living Age 7 Jan. 70 Herder had a hand in it; so had even the milk-mild Klopstock.
milk-pale adj.
ΚΠ
1895 W. B. Yeats Poems 33 And at his cry there came no milk-pale face Under a crown of thorns and dark with blood.
1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars xviii. 248 At each thorn-tip, as the flame licks near, wells out and gathers a milk-pale globe of poison.
1991 M. Lide Command of King (BNC) 42 Her face had gone milk-pale.
C3.
a.
milk abscess n. rare an abscess occurring in a mammary gland during lactation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > other abscesses
vomica1684
gumboil1753
milk abscess1784
cold abscess1828
1784 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children 239 The above mentioned treatise; in which the milk-abscess, and sore nipples are fully considered.
1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. I. at Milk-breast Some instances certainly have occurred, of cancers, which were traced by the patients themselves to a milk-abscess.
1961 A. S. MacNalty Brit. Med. Dict. 5/2 Milk abscess, an abscess of the breast arising during the lactation period.
milk bag n. (a) the udder of an animal (now rare); (b) chiefly North American, a bag, esp. a sealed polythene bag, used for holding milk.
ΚΠ
1712 J. Moncrief Tippermalluch's Receipts 82 The Liver, Lights..of a Male Goat chopped all together, and made in a Pudding in the Milk-bag, sodden and eaten.
1822 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 25 Sept. A black cow, which..has a white tip on the tail, and some white on the milk bag.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 659 We..see a meaning in the comparatively small milk-bag or udder of the mare and the large one of the cow.
1966 Times 2 Feb. 19/3 (caption) The two-ply polythene milk bags are sealed inside fibreboard boxes for use in specially built vending machines.
2003 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 18 Feb. a22 In these days of Tetrapaks and milk bags and waxed cardboard containers, the common milk bottle is not at all common any more.
milk bank n. an institutional store or reserve of human milk that may be drawn on, esp. to feed premature babies.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store > specifically of blood or milk
blood bank1936
breast milk bank1940
bloodstock1942
milk bank1948
1948 Archit. Rev. 104 21 (caption) Mothers' milk bank.
1972 Guardian 22 Aug. 4/6 If there should be a shortage of mother's milk, the hospital will get supplies from the National Milk Bank.
1987 Observer 29 Mar. 52/6 The NCT has drawn up a leaflet intended for milk banks and health visitors as well as their members.
milk bar n. a cafe or snack bar selling milk drinks and other refreshments; (later esp.) Australian a corner shop or local general store selling sweets, newspapers, convenience food, etc., as well as milk, milkshakes, and ice creams.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > milk-bar
milk bar1918
1918 Hoard's Dairyman 30 Aug. 153/2 Wherever people gather..at fairs, conventions, and shows there should be found the milk bar or the milkmaid serving the people with the refreshing food beverage.
1935 Forres Gaz. 20 Nov. 1/2 The milk bar, or place where milk drinks are sold, is a popular institution all over Australia, and plans are on foot for installing..them in Britain.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top xxx. 254 A milk bar near the railway station.
1962 T. M. Hunt & A. C. Toal Princ. Profitable Retailing 29 Many hundreds of Australian retailers conduct what is called a ‘mixed’ business..centred around a milk bar and/or delicatessen and/or sub-newsagency.
1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 281 I would perhaps follow him at a distance and watch him rejoin the two sixty-inch giantesses at the entrance to the milk bar.
2014 Cairns (Queensland) Post (Nexis) 18 Aug. 10 It started me thinking about my own 1970s childhood... Buying dad's Marlboro cigarettes—he called them ‘smokes’—and mixed lollies at the local milk bar.
milk-bar cowboy n. New Zealand derogatory (chiefly in the 1950s) a young man who, as part of a motorcycle gang, congregates in or around a milk-bar (cf. drugstore cowboy n. at drugstore n. Compounds 2).
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1951 N.Z. Truth 22 Mar. 4 New Zealand was plagued with the noisy, untidy nuisance of milkbar cowboys—motorbike gangs often bent on trouble.
1988 M. Jackson Rainshadow 113 We usually ended up at the Centreway, ordering sodas and watching the milkbar cowboys revving their motorbikes.
milk basket n. South African (now historical) a basket made of closely woven reeds or rushes, used to transport or store milk.
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1798 A. L. Barnard Jrnl. 23 May in Lives of Lindsays (1849) III. 464 A milk-basket which I looked at with a covetous eye, in which the Caffres carry their milk—which they weave so close with certain rushes that, after once using, the milk cannot get through.
1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. 507 The manner in which it is wove together is the same as that which is practiced by the Caffres Proper, in the making of their milk-baskets.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture xviii. 393 The dogs and cockroaches divide between them the duty of cleaning out the milk-baskets.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 318 Milk basket, baskets made by the natives from a strong, reedy grass are used to hold milk.
milk-blooded adj. derogatory (now rare) lacking courage or mettle; cowardly, spiritless.
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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective]
arghc885
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bloodlessc1225
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faintc1300
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comfortless1387
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coward-like1587
faint-heart1590
courageless1593
sheep-like1596
white-hearted1598
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milk-livered1608
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lily-livereda1616
yarrow1616
flightful1626
chicken-hearted1629
poltroon1649
cow-hearted1660
whey-blooded1675
unbravea1681
nimble-heeled1719
dunghill1775
shrimp-hearted1796
chicken-livered1804
white-feathered1816
pluckless1821
chicken-spirited1822
milk-blooded1822
cowardy1836
yellow1856
yellow-livered1857
putty-hearted1872
uncourageous1878
chicken1883
piker1901
yellow-bellied1907
manso1932
scaredy-cat1933
chickenshit1940
cold-footed1944
1822 T. L. Beddoes Brides' Trag. ii. ii. 35 Enough of woman: boy, your paramour Is troublesome, sirrah, milk-blooded imp, Raise her; she loves your silken limbs.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. xi. 259 I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward.
1988 Financial Times (Nexis) 26 Mar. p. xxiv The milk-blooded performances the university gives on the sacred turf nowadays.
† milk-blotch n. Medicine Obsolete rare (a lesion of) seborrhoeic dermatitis affecting the face or scalp of an infant.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > of infants
red gownc1400
red gum1597
white-gum1684
milk-blotch1797
strophulus1798
crusta lactea1806
tooth-rash1818
gum-rash1822
wildfire rash1822
teething rash1899
diaper rash1919
nappy rash1936
1797 M. Underwood Dis. Childr. (ed. 4) I. 97 Milk-blotches appear first on the forehead.
1890 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Milk Milk-blotch, same as Porrigo larvalis.
milk board n. †(a) (perhaps) a board made of milkstone (obsolete rare); (b) a committee responsible for the supervision and regulation of the milk business (cf. board n. 8b).
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1602 E. Spenser in A. B. Grosart Wks. (1882) I. p. xix One stone or milk-board.
1916 Rep. Special Milk Board Mass. State Dept. Health 60 The Milk Board visited various sections of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire..and Quebec in their investigation of the milk problem.
1943 E. Blunden Return to Husbandry iii. 16 Many small-holders have been debauched by milk-board ranching.
1993 Ontario Dairy Farmer Sept. 47/1 Under the milk board's accountability policy, fluid producers are now responsible for any increase in their fat test or fluid skim-off.
milk booth n. (in India) a kiosk operated by the local authorities for the distribution of milk.
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1962 R. P. Jhabvala Get Ready for Battle ii. 94 Vishnu's gaze left the empty parade ground and lingered lazily over the few booths that skirted it: a municipal milk-booth,..a cold-drink and betel-leaf seller with a thatched roof, a tea-stall under a tree.
1991 R. Mistry Such Long Journey (1992) 199 Outside the Aarey Colony milk booth, three boys in tattered vests and a little girl in scavenged ankle-length blouse scrambled round the wire racks, examining the used bottles.
milk box n. (a) a container in which milk is heated in the cheese-making process (rare); (b) a box in which milk can be stored to be kept cool; (c) a box, (now) esp. one on the outside of a house, to which milk and other such items can be delivered.
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1867 Sci. Amer. 23 Mar. 186/3 An improved cheese vat, by means of which the heat applied to the milk box may be regulated as desired.
1874 Subject-matter Index Patents 1790–1873 (U.S. Patent Office) II. 925 Invention... Milk-box..C. W. Eastwood... New York, N. Y. Feb., 1870.
1965 Accounting Rev. 40 688/1 The statements are prepared and left in the customers' milk boxes with the next milk delivery.
1981 W. Foley Back to Forest iii. 154 I was quite willing to go down to the milk-box and help him carry the bags up.
1988 J. Frame Carpathians iv. 24 Mattina went out to her milk-box to collect the full bottle.
2000 N.Y. Times 6 Apr. f12/2 The hinged top of the milk box squeaks open. Empties clink out, full ones clunk in, a routine that has almost disappeared from this country.
milk brother n. [with quot. 1897 compare Russian moločnyj brat son of one's wet nurse] chiefly U.S. regional a foster-brother; spec. a person to whom one is unrelated but who was nursed by the same woman; the son of one's wet nurse; also figurative.
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1883 Catholic World May 262 Irish history has preserved the memory of the intrepid self-devotion of foster-brothers who received the enemy's fire—made a target of their own bodies—shed their blood, and lost their lives in the vicissitudes of war, to save their ‘milk-brothers’ from destruction.
1897 Strand Mag. Christmas No. 617/1 Ivan was what is termed in Russian the ‘milkbrother’ of Alexia Bobrofsha.
a1965 W. S. Maugham Far Eastern Tales (1993) 199 Science is milk-brother to art.
1996 Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. III. 594 Milk brother,..From a man born in rural North Carolina about 1915. He hoped to visit his milk brother this summer. Seems he was quite premature and his mother had no milk, so a neighbor nursed him and her own offspring.
milk carrier n. (a) a person who carries milk, esp. a milkmaid; (b) a container for holding milk.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of milk
milkman1589
milk seller1600
milk carrier1794
milk-vendor1851
milk1859
milkie1886
milko1905
1794 J. Holt Gen. View Agric. County of Lancaster 15 There are but few milk-carriers that do not take a few greens [for sale].
1864 A. J. Munby Diary 17 Feb. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 179 I found her..waiting..for her fellow servant, whom she had just left at the dairy. So they employ two milkcarriers there.
1989 R. Banks Affliction iv. 54 The sound of Kenny Rogers croaking from the clock radio on the blue plastic milk carrier next to the bed.
† milk-cell n. Botany Obsolete any of the cells in which the milky juice or latex of a plant is produced.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > cell > types of > producing particular substance
milk-cell1884
tannin-sac1884
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 195 Those solitary spindle-shaped initial cells of the milk-cells do not exist.
milk chicken n. rare a chicken that has been fed on milk and ground oats.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > genus Gallus (domestic fowl) > [noun] > member of (fowl) > fed on particular things
milk chicken1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 882/2 Chickens fattened quite young..and known as petits poussins or ‘milk chickens’.
milk chocolate n. †(a) a drink made from chocolate and milk (obsolete); (b) a mid-brown colour like that of milk chocolate; also as adj.; (c) a sweet-tasting chocolate for confectionery, made in a similar way to plain chocolate but with a higher sugar content and the addition of milk solids.
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the world > food and drink > drink > cocoa > [noun]
chocolate1604
cacao1625
chocolate cup1687
milk chocolate1723
cocoa tea1747
cocoa1786
hot chocolate1789
hot cocoa1824
shell cocoa1902
drinking chocolate1920
shell shock1935
kye1943
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > light brown
dust-colour1607
milk chocolate1723
café au lait1763
whitey-brown1858
biscuit1879
rachel1880
bisque1891
lobster bisque1895
toast-colour1898
parchment1904
toast1922
suntan1923
milk coffee1972
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chocolate
jessamy-chocolate1697
milk chocolate1723
plain chocolate1737
chocolate drop1764
chocolate cream1851
chocolate1852
chocolate liqueur1864
chocolate button1865
choc1874
chocolate bar1875
choccy1885
langue de chat1897
black chocolate1902
soft centre1902
truffle1902
liqueur chocolate1904
bar1906
bark1910
chocolate coin1910
white chocolate1917
dark chocolate1930
Mars bar1932
Smarties1939
nutty1947
liqueur1965
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. I8 (heading) To make Milk Chocolate.
1752 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 16 Feb. (1967) III. 5 As soon as I am risen, I constantly take 3 cups of milk coffee, and two hours after that a large cup of milk chocolate.
1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 11 May 2/1 The favourite colours are jonquil, milk chocolate, Egyptian reed, and Parma violet.
1900 Grocer 5 May 78/1 (advt.) Peter's..The original milk-chocolate.
1910 Encycl. Brit. X. 614/2 Milk powder..is largely employed in the preparation of so-called milk chocolates.
1926 C. Beaton Diary 15 Apr. in Wandering Years (1961) iv. 80 I..bought some bars of milk chocolate.
1941 A. M. Lindbergh Let. 15 Aug. in War within & Without (1980) 215 The big room is a marvel of transformation. It has been changed from milk-chocolate and pink to blue and white.
1955 Radio Times 22 Apr. 21/3 14 milk chocolate caramels.
1969 Vogue 15 Mar. 81/1 An edging of milk chocolate suede.
2000 Independent 17 Mar. (Friday Review section) 7/6 From now on, British milk chocolate with more than 20 per cent milk must carry a label saying ‘Family Milk Chocolate’.
† milk circle n. Obsolete rare the Milky Way.
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the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way
wayeOE
Watling Streetc1384
galaxya1398
milky circlea1398
Milky Wayc1450
milk way1555
milk-white way1555
white circle1563
milken waya1586
milken race1596
milk circle1601
Via Lactea1615
lacteous circle1646
Milky Way1854
Walsingham Wayc1878
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 16 That white, which hath taken the name of the Milk circle [margin Galaxi].
milk coffee n. and adj. (a) n. coffee made with milk; white coffee; (b) adj. of a light brown colour like milk coffee.
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the world > food and drink > drink > coffee > [noun] > coffee with milk or cream
milk coffeec1695
café au lait1763
mélange1838
caffè latte1847
sergeant-major1923
café crème1936
cappuccino1948
mochaccino1963
flat white1971
latte macchiato1976
cortado1985
caffè macchiato1988
latte1989
skinny1992
the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > light brown
dust-colour1607
milk chocolate1723
café au lait1763
whitey-brown1858
biscuit1879
rachel1880
bisque1891
lobster bisque1895
toast-colour1898
parchment1904
toast1922
suntan1923
milk coffee1972
c1695 J. Lightbody Every Man his Own Gauger 62 If you would make Milk Coffee, you must, to every Pint of Water, put a quart of Milk.
1741 H. Mann Let. 2 May in H. Walpole Corr. (1954) XVII. 33 Madame del Benino came the day before to drink milk coffee with me.
1972 H. Osborne Pay-day ii. iv. 42 The girl at the desk..was a milk-coffee negress.
1986 P. Mora Borders 20 In the other room señoras in faded dresses stir sweet milk coffee.
† milk crust n. Medicine Obsolete rare seborrhoeic dermatitis affecting the face or scalp of an infant.
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1886 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. II. 633/1 As it [sc. vesicular eczema] shows itself in children over the face and scalp, it forms the eruption popularly known as milk crust, scalled head, tooth rash, or moist tetter.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 70 (advt.) Sufferers from Salt Rheum.., Milk Crust, Prickly Heat will get instantaneous relief from the first application.
† milkdame n. Obsolete rare a wet nurse.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > suckling infant > wet nurse
nursea1325
suck-giver1551
milkdame1582
nurse-girl1596
wet nursea1627
suck-nurse1652
dai1782
grass-nurse1797
amah1832
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 83 Her owne mylckdame in byrth soyl was breathles abyding.
† milk-diphtheria n. Obsolete rare diphtheria spread by means of infected milk.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of throat > [noun] > diphtheria
diphtheritis1826
diphtheria1842
diphtheroid1861
milk-diphtheria1887
1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 May 1020/1 Milk-diphtheria at Camberley and York Town.
milk drink n. (a) a milk-based drink; (b) a drink prepared with milk; a (powdered or granulated) substance to which milk is added to make a drink.
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1863 A. A. Harwood Let. 23 Feb. in Official Rec. Union & Confederate Navies War of Rebellion (U.S. Naval War Rec. Office) (1897) 1st Ser. V. 232 It was discovered that she had on board 428 dozen cans of an intoxicating drink resembling eggnog, entered on the manifest as milk, and the cans labeled ‘milk drink’.
1935 Forres Gaz. 20 Nov. 1/2 The milk bar, or place where milk drinks are sold, is a popular institution all over Australia, and plans are on foot for installing..them in Britain.
1961 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 124 352 Originally, habits such as leaving the fat on the side of the plate or having a milk drink at night were examined.
2000 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 6 May (Weekend Suppl.) 70 Don't overdo it on the evening milk drink—if you drink too much, half way through the night you'll need milking.
milk duct n. Anatomy †(a) a lacticiferous vessel of a plant (cf. milk tube n. (c)); (b) any of the ducts that convey milk from the secretory lobules of the mammary gland to the nipple.
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1868 S. W. Johnson How Crops Grow 281 There is, in many plants, a system of irregularly branched channels containing a milky juice... These milk-ducts..are imperfectly understood.
1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 18 Oct. 509/2 There is nothing yet discovered in the habits of these germs that should compel them to enter at once the milk-ducts, leaving the flesh and muscles free.
1937 Surg., Gynecol. & Obstetr. 64 594/1 Contrast fluids..are injected directly into the milk ducts, thus giving an accurate roentgenographic pattern of the ductal and secretory system of the mammary gland.
1995 Mother & Baby June 48/1 The hormone oxytocin makes the muscle fibres around the milk glands contract and squeeze the milk into the milk ducts.
† milk escutcheon n. Obsolete rare = milk mirror n.
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1881 J. P. Sheldon Dairy Farming 7/2 This milk escutcheon, or shield, then, is one of those theories of which [etc.].
milk factor n. Medicine (a) a factor involved in the causation of mammary tumours in mice, transmitted from mother to offspring in milk (later identified as the mouse mammary tumour virus) (now historical); (b) any of various incompletely characterized substances present in milk that have some specific physiological effect.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [noun] > disease of breast > predisposition to breast cancer
milk factor1939
1939 J. J. Bittner in Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 54 1115 The breast cancer observations..may be explained by a theory..assuming that three ‘factors’ are needed... These factors are: (A) A ‘breast cancer-producing influence’ transferred through the milk of high-cancer stock females to their progeny. This has been designated as the ‘milk factor’ in the tables.
1943 C. F. Geschickter Dis. Breast xxxv. 800 This so-called milk-factor or milk-influence has been extracted from the mammary glands of lactating cancer-susceptible mice by Bittner and shown to increase the incidence of mammary cancer whether injected in, or fed to young mice.
1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. I. xxviii. 990/1 There is no evidence that a milk factor plays any part in the occurrence of carcinoma of the breast in women. There is no way by which such a factor can be demonstrated.
1986 Endocrinologia Experimentalis 20 155 The contribution of a hypothetic milk factor in the masculinization process of gonadotropin secretion pattern was investigated.
1998 Inflammation Res. 47 384 Effects of hyperimmune milk factor (HIMF), an anti-inflammatory factor from milk of hyperimmunised cows, on tight junction permeability and cell growth were studied.
milk factory n. (a) a place where milk is processed; (also, in extended use) a prodigious producer of milk; (b) plural (U.S. slang), a woman's breasts.
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1846 N.-Y. Evangelist 29 Jan. 20/3 A friend invited me to make an excursion into the upper part of the city to see a milk factory.
1886 R. W. Bagot Hand-bk. Dairy Factories 8 Factories [in Ireland]..where the whole milk is purchased from the farmer—we call milk factories.
1946 J. H. Burns Gallery 228 Nuttin but rear ends bouncin like Jello and milk factories under dere dresses.
1965 Economist 2 Oct. 70/2 In the past, the calf of a pure dairy cow, unless she was a heifer and so a potential milk-factory, was classed as..fit only for veal.
2014 A. K. Biswas et al. Creating Shared Value iii. 9 Nestlé decided to take the risk and submitted a plan for the construction of a milk factory in Moga.
milk farm n. a dairy farm.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farm
wick1086
vacherya1325
vaccary1471
dairy1562
dairy-farm1784
milk farm1794
saeter1799
vaccarage1895
1794 J. Holt Gen. View Agric. County of Lancaster 15 One Mayo..has a milk farm upon this estate of T. Butterworth Bayley, Esq.
1844 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical xx. 135 Her father..held a small milk farm on the hill side.
1867 Criminal Chronol. York Castle 195 She had a small milk-farm, which the prisoner managed.
1948 S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! viii. 112 They were the sort of people you could have encountered at a New Jersey milk farm.
2000 Evening Standard (Manawatu, N. Z.) (Electronic ed.) 31 Oct. 10 The winter milk farm has 200 cows.
milk farmer n. a dairy farmer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farmer
dairy-woman1609
cow-keeper1638
dairyman1784
dairy-farmer1790
cow-feeder1805
milk farmer1805
cow-banger1892
cow-cocky1914
cow-spanker1917
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 968 The sort of cow most adapted to the intentions of the milk-farmer must of course vary.
1877 A. Douai Better Times 7 Milk-farmers in the neighborhood of New York.
2000 Farmers Guardian (Nexis) 29 Sept. 11 He does know how to steal from milk farmers as their 1p price rise suggests.
milkfish n. (a) Australian (now rare) = bêche-de-mer n.; (b) a large, fork-tailed, silver marine fish, Chanos chanos, cultured for food in South-East Asia and the Philippines.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Myctophiforms > [noun] > order Gonorhynchiformes > member of Anotophysi (milk-fish)
milkfish1880
the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish
dogdrave1227
lamprey1297
lingc1300
loach1357
tench1390
carpc1440
rougetc1485
anchovy1582
pompano1598
tai1620
alewife1633
tug-whitingc1650
weakfish1686
ten-pounder1699
fire-flaira1705
tusk1707
porgy1725
katsuo1727
rockfish1731
tautog1750
sea bass1765
Albany beef1779
sable1810
Murray cod1843
paradise fish1858
spot1864
strawberry bass1867
nannygai1871
maomao1873
spotfish1875
strawberry perch1877
milkfish1880
tarwhine1880
tile-fish1881
latchett1882
tile1893
anago1895
flake1906
branzino1915
rascasse1921
lampuki1925
red fish1951
1880 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 5 128 Another species [of Trepang] is the ‘milk fish’, or ‘cotton fish’, so called from its power of emitting a white viscid fluid.., which clings to any object like shreds of cotton.
1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. iii. 45 The single living species is the Awa, or milkfish, Chanos chanos, largely used as food in Hawaii.
1962 K. F. Lagler et al. Ichthyol. vi. 203 The irregular movements of the Asiatic milkfish (Chanos) into and out of fresh water make it amphidromous.
1974 National Geographic Dec. 788/2 Across southern Asia, from the Philippines to India, commercial aquaculturists have begun to raise milkfish, a food species that subsists on plant life.
1991 R. S. K. Barnes & K. H. Mann Fund. Aquatic Ecol. (ed. 2) i. 26/1 In the tropics..,there is an old tradition of labour-intensive cultivation of shrimp and milkfish.
milk float n. chiefly British an open-sided vehicle (now usually electrically powered) for delivering milk.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun] > electrically-powered vehicle > specific
milk float1864
mule1903
float1971
Segway2001
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon or cart for specific articles > milk
milk-cart1788
milk float1864
1864 Manchester Guardian 13 Feb. 7 (advt.) A good milk float to be sold, cheap.
1887 Bury Times 3 Sept. 6/4 He noticed the defendant driving a milk float towards him at a great speed.
1935 N. Collins Three Friends viii. 143 A horse attached to a milk float wore a hat made of newspaper.
1951 Engineering 20 July 95/3 Pedestrian-controlled vehicles (such as hand-operated electric milk floats).
1996 Earth Matters Summer 22 He switched to practical action with a pioneering recycling project in Oxford, using first cycle trailers then an electric milk float to collect waste paper.
milk-flour n. rare = milk powder n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > milk powder
milk powder1834
milk-flour1902
1902 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 Feb. 191/1 The milk-flour is completely soluble in water.
† milk fungus n. Obsolete rare = milk cap n. at Compounds 3b.
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1870 Harper's Mag. Apr. 782 (heading) Milk fungus.
milk gap n. U.S. regional a pen, esp. a small one in a pasture, where cows are milked; an opening in a fence, etc., through which cows are brought to be milked.
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1914 M. W. Morley Carolina Mountains 172 In some places the people still go to the ‘milking gap’ to milk the cows.]
1937 Hall Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) (at cited word) Milk gap, a place where cows are penned for milking.
1938 J. Stuart Beyond Dark Hills 58 I told her my plans at the milk gap every evening after spring came on and the cows were turned out on the grass.
1982 P. M. Ginns Snowbird Gravy & Dishpan Pie 171 You know, there aren't many people know what a milk gap is. It's a kind of fenced in little place. Maybe the cows are all in the pasture, and you call 'em in to milk 'em. And you get 'em in this little corral.
milk-giver n. a person who or thing which supplies milk; also figurative.
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1871 Littell's Living Age 13 May 396 ‘I am marking the cows, that we must sell.’.. ‘What is this? my best milk-givers!’
1888 E. Clodd Story of Creation (1894) 129 The Marsupials, or pouched milk-givers.
a1916 J. London Water Baby in On Makaloa Mat (1919) 150 She [sc. the sea], to me, is the milk giver, the life source.
1978 MLN 93 846 Pygmalion wants to resuscitate the mother, wants to create the mother, the origin, out of inanimate material, and he wants to produce what he creates by means of a phallic object: the incest is supposed to give rise to the milk-giver.
2000 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 5 Sept. c9 ‘Hey, look, Dad, they have cows here, too.’.. Of course, they were not real milk-givers. They were statues made of papier-mache.
milk-glass n. (a) a white opaline (opaline adj. 3); (b) a glass vessel applied to a woman's breast to receive excess or unwanted milk (rare).
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1869 Manufacturer & Builder May 147 This milk-glass..is easily cracked by the application of a small flame, and is very easily fusible, being a lead glass.
1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Milk-glass, a glass applied to the breast to receive the superabundant flow of milk.
1952 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 73/2 (caption) The table..displays a little holiday grouping of white hobnail milk-glass jars, holding candles.
1990 J. C. Oates Because it is Bitter iii. xiv. 345 The tall milk-glass lamp on Iris's bedside table casts a warm, halolike glow.
milk gravy n. U.S. a type of gravy made from milk, fat, flour, and seasonings.
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1884 Bad Lands Cow Boy (Little Missouri, Dakota Territory) 7 Feb. 1/5 ‘Gimme that snake rare—milk gravy on the side,’ was hallooed to the cook.
1944 Amer. Speech 19 124 Milk gravy is a primitive type of white sauce. Normally, it is the concomitant of fried pork... Work up..the fat with milk, flour, and seasoning into a gravy, and there is your milk gravy.
1999 S. Perera Haven't stopped dancing Yet ii. 21 Anu had cooked a feast herself—stringhoppers with milk gravy, chicken, lamb and lentils.
milk kinship n. the kinship arising from adoption or fostering.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > adoptive or foster relationship
adoptionc1384
milk-tie1870
milk kinship1885
1885 W. R. Smith Kinship & Marriage in Early Arabia v. 149 We find among the Arabs a feeling about milk-kinship so well established that [etc.].
1993 Man 28 276 The largely sedentary Arab tribe of the Bani Mhammad, to whom the Ait Khabbash were bound by a pact of ‘milk kinship’.., generally supported the Ait Khabbash.
milk kitchen n. an establishment providing milk for children (rare); a hospital kitchen where babies' feeds are prepared.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > other kitchens
back-kitchen1535
summer kitchen1632
cook-room1707
cellar kitchen1741
milk kitchen1922
eat-in kitchen1955
step saver1967
1922 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 28 102 Advisory schools and milk kitchens: Here mothers are instructed how to care for their infants and children. There places also receive sterilized milk, independently of the central milk station.
1965 Nursing Times 5 Feb. 181/1 In some hospitals the labour wards and the milk kitchens were each centralized.
1989 Jrnl. Hosp. Infection 13 182 Persons entering the milk kitchen are provided with a clean white coat to wear.
milk leg n. phlegmasia alba dolens (deep venous thrombosis of the iliofemoral veins, esp. in a post-partum woman).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [noun] > disorders of leg
white leg1801
snow-shoe evil1809
sparganosis1822
milk leg1830
phlegmasia alba dolens1830
scissor leg1850
scelalgia1853
tennis-knee1901
intermittent claudication1909
knee1921
shin-cracker1928
shin-splint1930
panpygoptosis1938
shelter leg1940
phlegmasia cerulea dolens1950
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of pregnancy or birth > [noun] > white leg
phlegmasia dolens1800
white leg1801
milk leg1830
1830 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Feb. 295 The milk leg, as it has been termed, or phlegmasia alba dolens.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 216 Tense, shiny, smooth, white or mottled skin, marked often by dilated veins, whence comes the name milk-leg or white leg.
1922 C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations i. 233 It is technically called phlegmasia dolens, but from the fact of its resemblance to a thin bag of skin filled with milk, and as it was formerly thought that the milk from the breasts in some way managed to get there, it has been called ‘milk leg’.
1980 Arch. Surg. 115 1151 Charles White in 1784 first demonstrated that milk leg was not caused by retained milk or lochia but rather by obstructing clots in the veins.
1988 H. Broun Cardinal Numbers 19 He never stopped whining about his ailments. Lumbago today and bursitis tomorrow or palsy or milk leg or grippe.
† milkmadge n. Obsolete rare a milkmaid.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > dairy staff > dairymaid
deya1000
dey-wife1495
milkmaid1552
cream-pot1580
milkmadge1582
dey-woman1598
whowball1598
dairymaid1616
milk-girl1789
dey-girl1828
milkeress1839
gopi1880
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > dairy-farmer > milkmaid
deya1000
dey-wife1495
milkmaid1552
cream-pot1580
milkmadge1582
dey-woman1598
whowball1598
dairymaid1616
milk-girl1789
dey-girl1828
milkeress1839
gopi1880
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 80 Shal I now, lyk a castaway milckmadge, On mye woers formoure bee fawning?
Milk Marketing Board n. (in the United Kingdom) (the name of) a statutory body founded in 1933 to operate the Milk Marketing Scheme (provided for under the 1931 Agricultural Act), which regulated the production and distribution of milk and dairy products, and fixed their prices, replaced in 1994 by the privatized Milk Marque (see Milk Marque n.); a similar body elsewhere; abbreviated MMB.
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1933 Times 2 Aug. 10/6 The Milk Marketing Board...invited applications for the positions of manager, accountant, registrar and statistician.
1960 Econ. Jrnl. 70 585 In his brief description of the activities of the Milk Marketing Board, the author appears to be oblivious of the Board's efforts to induce him to ‘Drinka Pinta Milka Day’.
1993 Ontario Dairy Farmer Sept. 73/1 His political activity with ODHIC and the Ontario Milk Marketing Board has lasted just about as long.
Milk Marque n. British (a proprietary name for) a privatized cooperative responsible for the collection, delivery, and transportation of milk and other dairy products within the United Kingdom, which in 1994 replaced the statutory Milk Marketing Board.
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1993 Independent 5 Jan. 18/1 The Milk Marketing Board is to change its name to Milk Marque when it converts from a statutory monopoly to a voluntary co-operative.
1994 Observer 13 Nov. (Business section) 1/3 Under the reorganisation, the 60-year-old Milk Marketing Board was abolished and the operation divided into Dairy Crest, the food processing arm, and Milk Marque, the farmers' milk co-operative.
1998 Grocer 1 Aug. 27/1 Without Milk Marque, there is the risk of an open season on dairy producers, since farmers in trouble would be tempted to sell milk at any price to stay in business.
milk mirror n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) an area of skin with an upward pattern of hair growth, covering the udder and contiguous parts of a cow (or the equivalent part of a bull); = escutcheon n. 3g; cf. mirror n. 8.
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1853 New Eng. Farmer May 210/1 In the milk mirror which begins at the udder, the downlike delicate, short and lighter-colored hair grows upwards.
1858 C. L. Flint Milch Cows 65 An animal in which these signs are found would rarely fail of having a good ‘milk-mirror’ or escutcheon.
1881 J. P. Sheldon Dairy Farming 6/2 The ‘milk-mirror’ or ‘escutcheon’ theory of M. Guenon.
1938 D. L. Espe Secretion of Milk ii. 8 (note) The early views regarding the value of the escutcheon or milk mirror in determining the producing ability of a cow have been largely cast aside.
1963 E. E. Lampard Rise Dairy Industry Wisconsin vi. 172 Seward adhered to Guenon's principle of ‘the milk mirror’, but he emphasized that care and comfort were almost as important as breed or feed.
2004 B. Orland in S. R. Schrepfer & P. Scranton Industrializing Organisms ii. 178 Agricultural literature then, very often reflected popular thought or individual experience; one example is Francois Guenon's ‘milk mirror’ (a pattern of hair growth around the udder).
† milk-mite n. Obsolete = cheese mite n. at cheese n.1 Compounds 2.
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1861 Harper's Mag. Apr. 609 Figure 3 is the Acarus lacteus—(Milk-Mite). It is very small and transparent. The hairs and body are purely white.
1889 Cent. Dict. at Cheese-mite It occurs not only in cheese, but in flour, when it is known as the flour-mite, and in milk, when it is called the milk-mite.
milk money n. money used to pay for milk, esp. milk delivered to the home or provided for children at school (in quot. a1637, perhaps figurative or money gained from the sale of milk).
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a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub i. iv. sig. Kv, in Wks. (1640) III Here comes another old Boy too, vor his colours Will stroake downe my wives udder of purses, empty Of all her milke money, this Winter Quarter. View more context for this quotation
1976 Cumberland News 3 Dec. 1/4 Not only coal is being taken. Posing as someone helping with a milk round, a boy, aged about ten, has collected ‘milk money’ from the aged persons bungalows at Lyngarth, Harraby.
1993 Economist 7 Aug. 44/3 New York's Mayor La Guardia started a campaign against the ‘slimy crews of tinhorns’ who, addicted to the game [sc. pinball], supposedly practised ‘penny thievery’ relieving children of their milk money.
milk monitor n. a child responsible for distributing bottles of milk at school.
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1943 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 17 99 The milk is distributed by two boys in the 6B class, who are the milk monitors for this term. They take charge of collecting the money and ordering and distributing the milk.
1981 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (1999) I. 1st Ser. Episode 5. 45 They did want a man with previous experience and, as your last job was a milk monitor, I did have a bit of trouble persuading them.
1999 Evening Post (Bristol) (Electronic ed.) 27 Apr. The milkman..delivered crates of ⅓ pint bottles of milk to our school. Lots of girls talked to me about him as I was the milk monitor.
milk moustache n. colloquial a white residue left on the upper lip after drinking milk; cf. moustache n. 1c.
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1907 Pointer (Riverdale, Illinois) 5 July 3/3 Comparatively few children are taught how to drink in a well mannered way... ‘Milk mustaches’ should be as reprehensible for children as for grown persons.
2004 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 28 Mar. b3/4 (advt.) Unlike a milk moustache, stress is not something we can wipe off with a napkin at the end of the day.
milk name n. [after Chinese nǎimíng < nǎi breasts, milk; to breastfeed + míng name] a name given to a Chinese child at one month old, later superseded by more formal names but occasionally used, esp. as an endearment.
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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > name given to a child or baby
milk name1836
baby name1851
1836 J. F. Davis Chinese I. vii. 288 The birth of a son is of course an occasion of great rejoicing; the family or surname is first given, and then the ‘milk name’, which is generally some diminutive of endearment.
1911 J. D. Ball Chinese at Home vii. 75 The milk name..clings to him or her through life, being used by parents, relatives, and most intimate friends, as well as by superiors.
1975 O. Sela Bengali Inheritance iii. 23 His milk name had been Chan Yan-Wo, and at school he had changed it to Richard.., the first step in accepting Western ways.
1989 A. Tan Joy Luck Club 274 She has just called my father ‘Little Wild Goose’. It must be his baby milk name, the name used to discourage ghosts from stealing children.
milk nurse n. a wet nurse.
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c1826 Earl Richard ix, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1886) II. iv. 462 My mither was a gude milk-nurse.
1880 W. Grossart Hist. Notices Parish Shotts 190 He was boarded with Margaret Johnston, his ‘milk nurse’.
1991 A. Tan Kitchen God's Wife xv. 258 She would drink only my milk, refused that of her sau nai-nai, her milk nurse.
milk paint n. chiefly North American a paint made from milk, lime, natural colouring, and sometimes linseed oil; frequently used on 19th-cent. North American furniture and home interiors, or on later North American designs reproducing or influenced by these.
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1847 Sci. Amer. 5 June 296 (caption) Milk paint... A foreign correspndent..says that a paint has been used on the Continent with success, made from milk and lime, that dries quicker than oil paint, and has no smell.
1993 Canad. House & Home Oct. 86/2 Have fun finishing it with an ‘antique’-type milk paint or coloured wood stain for a weathered, washed look.
milk-painted adj. coated in milk paint.
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1990 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Jan. 8 Manufacturers at all price levels..are drenching the market in milk-painted or paint-washed armoires and entertainment centers.
1994 Mary Emmerling's Country Aug. 37/2 Milk-painted farmer-built cupboards with a hundred years of use on them, stenciled dressers, the furniture of the old farms.
milk pan n. (a) a large shallow pan in which milk is kept while the cream rises and separates (cf. pancheon n. 1); (b) any bowl or vessel in which milk is stored or served; (c) a type of saucepan, with a lip for pouring and with no lid, used for boiling milk.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > milk-pot or -can
milk stop1440
milk-vesselc1450
milking pot1511
boyne1532
milk pot1535
milk pan1557
milk-bowl1567
milk can1568
milk-kettle1572
1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. C.ii Their milk pannes so flotte, that their cheeses be lost.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 270 Womens brestes are not allwayes full of milke, as milke pannes are.
a1687 H. More Contin. in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1689) 421 A great many Earthen Milk-pans or Panchins, as they call them.
1773 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 4 Oct. (1997) I. 346 P[ai]d. Robt. Anderson for milk pans 3/.
1840 T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany I. 40 A brawn dish of the size and shape of a milk-pan.
1878 E. W. L. Davies Mem. J. Russell 71 The country-people..left their milk-pans on the fire till the cream was ‘switched’, or perhaps burned.
1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood ii. 79 Recovering somewhat from his fright, he began to bark at the creature, and ran round and round his milk-pan, wouf-woufing, gurring, growling, like an old dog barking at a wild-cat or a bear.
1982 Habitat Catal. 1982–3 83/1 Milkpan and frypan are non-stick Teflon II coated.
† milk pap n. Obsolete rare a teat, a nipple.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > breast or breasts (of woman) > [noun] > nipple
papc1175
teat?a1200
pap-head?a1425
big?a1439
wartc1440
teat headc1500
nipplec1510
spin1525
dug1530
spean1573
bud1593
milk papa1616
niplet1648
dud1679
mamilla1684
duddlea1708
diddy1788
tittya1825
knob1941
nip1970
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 116 Those Milke pappes That through the window Barne bore at mens eyes.
milk pie n. U.S. (originally among German and Dutch communities) a pie or tart with a custard filling (cf. milk tart n.).
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1914 Ladies Aid Soc. Cook Bk. 54 Butter-Milk Pie.]
1950 F. Klees Pennsylvania Dutch xxxii. 416 I do not mean to imply that..all Pennsylvania Dutch pies are good... Milk pie I consider a pale makeshift of a pie.
1997 Columbian (Vancouver, Washington) (Nexis) 7 Jan. 1 As Marcia Adams writes in ‘Heartland’: ‘Sometimes called milk pie or poor man's pie, these sugar pies are generally made from scraps of leftover pie pastry, filled with milk or cream and some sugar, and thickened with flour.’
† milk poultice n. Obsolete a poultice (esp. a bread poultice) soaked in hot milk.
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1747 D. Garrick Miss in her Teens ii. i. 21 A Milk-poultice, and a gentle Sweat to Night, with a little Manna in the Morning, I am confident, Will relieve me entirely.
1797 J. Woodforde Diary 26 Feb. (1931) V. 13 He told her to..poultice her Knee by Night with a Milk Poultice.
1869 Galaxy May 660 Of words formed by joining milk and some other word together there are twenty-two,..and yet milk-punch, milk-train, and milk-poultice are omitted.
milk powder n. a powdered preparation of dehydrated milk.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > milk powder
milk powder1834
milk-flour1902
1834 India Jrnl. Med. Sci. 1 i. 32/2 Milk Powder... Specimens of an article he has advertised under the designation of Pulverised Milk.
1910 Encycl. Brit. X. 614/2 Milk powder made from skim-milk keeps well for considerable periods.
1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play xii. 96 A big American air force general with a complexion like milk-powder.
1998 K. Desai Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard (1999) i. 11 Draped in the foliage of the ruined jamun, they discovered containers full of sugar and tea,..dried milk powder, raisins and digestive biscuits.
milk product n. (a) a yield of milk (rare); (b) a foodstuff derived from milk.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun]
whiteOE
white meata1425
milkmeat1440
milkness1493
whitage1537
whitsull1602
dairy-ware1727
lactage1753
dairy produce1842
milk product1867
creamerya1877
dairy1948
milchigs1949
1867 F. Dorsett Treat. on Agric. xix. 123 The statistics of 1861, represent the entire milk product of the United States for the year of 1860.
1893 H. Leffman & W. Beam (title) Analysis of milk and milk products.
1994 Dairy Guide Apr. 3/2 The time is needed to better inform customers about BST to avoid a possible drop in milk product consumption.
milk-pump n. rare = breast pump n. at breast n. Compounds 1c.
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1853 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Antlia Lactea,..an instrument, for drawing milk from the breast, a milk-pump.
milk quartz n. [after German Milch Quarz (1801 or earlier)] an opaque milk-white variety of quartz.
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1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. iii. 27 I now proceed to a brief..explication of the external characters given by Mr. Werner... White. Milk white—contains a slight mixture of blue.]
1804 R. Jameson Syst. Mineral. I. 149 (heading) Milk Quartz. Milch Quarz.—Werner.
1836 T. Thomson Outl. Mineral. I. 64 Rock crystal,..rose quartz, milk quartz, siderite.
1991 Antiquity 65 900/1 Large, simple, unretouched flakes or choppers on strictly locally available quartzite (and milk quartz).
Milk Race n. (an alternative name for) the Tour of Britain, an annual multistage cycling race once sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board (see quot. 1975).
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1971 P. Duker Sting in Tail (1973) v. 46 I didn't bargain for a climb of fifty km. to the top of Mir-Ali.., where I left a marker for Milk-Race Organiser Maurice Cumberworth.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 1042/1 Created in 1951 by the Daily Express, it was revived in 1958, after a two-year lapse, by the Milk Marketing Board, who continued as sponsors into the 1970s, hence the growing use of its other title, the Milk Race.
1993 Cycling Weekly 23 Jan. 5/1 Neilson has already set the pace for change by applying to place teams in both the am–pro Milk Race this May and the professional Kellogg's Tour in August.
milk ranch n. U.S. (now historical and rare) a dairy farm, a ranch on which cows are kept for milk production.
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1854 New Eng. Farmer Nov. 527/1 What is the price of yearling bulls! and what is the best breed for milk ranches!
1899 Monthly S. Dakotan 1 194 [A man from Missouri] brought in a herd of cows and established a milk ranch on Slate creek.
1925 Youth's Compan. 15 Jan. 42/4 At a milk ranch a few miles away a huge out-of-doors cage was built for him.
2004 W. Lipsky San Francisco's Marina District i. 20 The Matthias tamily had a milk ranch at what is now the intersection of Steiner and Francisco.
milk record n. a record of the milk-yield of a milk-producing animal during a specified period, used in evaluating the worth of the animal; (also) the total recorded yield for a cow, usually quoted per lactation.
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1891 Overland Monthly May 458/2 There is the beef strain of the Durham, cows of which I have been told are often unable to provide milk enough for their own calves; and there are milk strains that have high milk records.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 506 His sire's milk record was a thousand gallons of whole milk in forty weeks.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 47/2 This bull had an excellent milk-record pedigree.
1981 J. Halliday & J. Halliday in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry iv. 78/1 Be guided more by the goat's own milk records or, in the case of young stock, by those of its dam, its sister, its sire's dam and his immediate female relations.
milk-recorded adj. (of a cow, etc.) of which the milk-yield has been recorded.
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1951 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 114 92 Very informative statistics bearing on livestock quality are now being published..by the Records Section of the Milk Marketing Board in the form of milk yields of milk recorded herds.
1971 Farmer & Stockbreeder 23 Feb. 53/3 (advt.) Ayr Bull Sale... Pedigreed, Milk Recorded and Brucellosis Accredited Ayrshire Bull Stirks.
1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock v. 88 In 1914, 39 bulls and 20 cows were imported, having been selected in the Netherlands from good, milk-recorded stock.
2014 A. Malak-Rawlikowska & M. Zekalo in A. Kuipers et al. Cattle Husbandry E. Europe & China 103 In Poland, the performance of cows on milk recorded farms is much better than of cows from the general population.
milk recorder n. a person who takes the milk record of a milk-producing animal.
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1916 J. N. Chevallier & A. W. Oldershaw in Jrnl. Board Agric. 23 432 Not the least misfortune which it has incurred therewith is the loss..of Mr Bewley, the milk recorder.
1928 Biometrika 20B 199 If the milk recorder would make his first test say 12 days after calving, he would be allowing an average of five days for the colostrum period and the lactation period would begin five days after calving.
2005 C. Lecomte et al. in M. Guellouz et al. Performance Recording Animals 104 (table) Information ‘milk yield’ and ‘contents’ gathered by the milk recorder of the herd improvement association.
milk recording n. the recording of the milk-yield of a milk-producing animal.
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1916 J. N. Chevallier & A. W. Oldershaw in Jrnl. Board Agric. 23 433 One of the most useful functions which can be performed by a milk recording society is that of carefully weighing the food fed to the cows.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 47/1 The chief work of this association lay in milk recording.
1966 Farmer wants Wife (Farmers Weekly Farm Women's Club) 67 In conjunction with milk recording this enables a farmer to breed for beef from lesser yielding cows.
2005 J. M. Astruc & F. Barillet in M. Guelloz et al. Performance Recording Animals 97 The use of simplified designs for quantitative milk recording has been steadily increasing since 1990.
milk ridge n. [after German Milchleiste (O. Schultze 1893, in Verhandl. der Physikal.-Med. Ges. zu Würzburg 26 173)] Embryology = milk line n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > embryo parts > [noun] > mammary glands
milk ridge1875
milk line1893
1875 Trans. Amer. Neurolog. Soc. 47 331 A thickening of the epidermis in the form of a ridge extending from the level of the shoulder to the inguinal fold, known as the milk streak, milk line, milk ridge, or mammary line.
1970 H. P. Leis Diagnosis & Treatm. Breast Lesions i. 15 Polymastia, presenting as more than one breast on one or both sides, is due to the persistence of part of the milk ridge and these supernumerary breasts can occur anywhere along the milk line.
2009 J. E. Skandalakis in M. A. Shiffman Breast Augmentation i. 3 The pectoral part of the milk ridge produces the right and left mammary primordia.
milk room n. a room in a house or dairy in which milk is stored.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > dairy
dairyc1290
dey-house1342
dairy-house1530
milkhouse1554
milkness1691
milk room1698
butter dairy1784
cheesery1836
creamery1872
1698 Inventory of Simon Holding Worcs. Rec. Office: 008.7 BA 3585/359 Item for the Milk Room: ffive Tubbs Cubbert one side table—0–16–0.
1757 W. Halfpenny Mod. Builder's Assistant 41 Milk Room, or Dairy, 10 Feet 6 Inches by 13 Feet 6 Inches.
1836 Knickerbocker 8 706 In the rear, is quite a city of additions, in the shape of bed-rooms, bath-rooms, milk-rooms, buttery [etc.].
1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 21/1 (advt.) Lean-to, barn for animals, dairy and milk room, 4 calf pens.
2011 K. Timmermeister Growing a Farmer 109 As soon as the milking of the cows is completed, the milk is removed from this room and taken to the milk room a few feet away.
milk round n. (a) a fixed route on which milk is regularly collected from farmers or delivered to customers; a milk delivery business covering such routes; (b) = milk run n. (b); (c) colloquial a series of (typically annual) visits to universities and colleges made by business representatives to recruit graduates.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > milkman's delivery round
milk-walk1805
milk round1865
milk route1874
milk run1909
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > regular
milk round1865
run1893
milk run1909
society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > a flight through air or space > regular or repeated
milk round1865
milk run1909
shuttle flight1944
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milk round
milk round1865
milk route1874
milk run1909
society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > seeking an employee
headhunting1909
milk round1970
trawl1971
1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. II. i. 46 For sale, a Milk ‘Round’. That is what we call a ‘walk’.
1900 Oxf. Times 13 Jan. (advt.) Wanted, a single man to serve a milk-round.
1927 R. B. Forrester Fluid Milk Market Eng. & Wales 96 Retail Delivery. Milk Rounds…no close or detailed survey of actual roundsman systems has ever been made in this country.
1945 E. Partridge Dict. R.A.F. Slang 39 Milkround, a run made fairly regularly by a Squadron or a Force, if it returns to its station or base in the early morning.
1952 E. F. Davies Illyrian Venture x. 191 We did a ‘milk-round’ of all the jails in Vienna, picking up and setting down prisoners at every stop.
1970 Times 17 Nov. 19/8 Like other business organisations, we make what is known as the annual milkround, going to every university at the recruiting time.
1972 Guardian 8 Feb. 13/7 Fund-raising must be..centralized, instead of the monthly ‘milk rounds’ by volunteers.
1982 T. Gunn Occasions of Poetry II. 172 My aunts had a milk-round on which I sometimes helped out, serving the milk out of pails.
1993 Computing 21 Oct. 20/1 They first met at Logica in 1975 where Castles was recruited fresh from the milkround with a degree in electronic engineering from Southampton University.
milk roundsman n. a person who carries out a milk round.
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1934 H. L. Beales & R. S. Lambert Mem. Unemployed 158 When the firm went bankrupt I was discharged, and after another spell of unemployment..I obtained work as a milk roundsman.
1940 F. Kitchen Brother to Ox xiii. 202 I want to say what a pleasant job it is being a milkroundsman.
2000 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Electronic ed.) 3 Nov. Being a milk roundsman is something that I have always been interested in as the responsibility of managing your own round is almost like being your own boss.
milk route n. U.S. = milk round n. (a).
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > milkman's delivery round
milk-walk1805
milk round1865
milk route1874
milk run1909
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milk round
milk round1865
milk route1874
milk run1909
1874 Rep. Comm. Agric. 1873 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 246 The most economical method of managing the delivery of milk at the factory is by establishing milk routes.
1897 ‘M. Twain’ Following Equator xliv. 464 The vested rights..are frequently the subject of sale or mortgage. Just like a milk-route.
1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 372 The milk companies..are saved most of the costs of local distribution by delivering the orange juice on their milk route.
2000 Business India (Electronic ed.) 23 Apr. Part of this operation will be the establishment of a ‘milk route’ to cover geographical clusters of local vendors, from which the same truck will pick up their products on a single run.
milk run n. (a) = milk round n. (a); (b) colloquial a routine trip or service, usually involving calls at several places, esp. an early morning train or flight; (c) spec. (U.S.A.F. slang), a safe or uneventful mission; a flight completed without risk or incident.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > milkman's delivery round
milk-walk1805
milk round1865
milk route1874
milk run1909
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > regular
milk round1865
run1893
milk run1909
society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > a flight through air or space > regular or repeated
milk round1865
milk run1909
shuttle flight1944
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milk round
milk round1865
milk route1874
milk run1909
1909 Truth (Sydney) 14 Feb. 7/4 He had drawn £11 out to buy a milk run.
1925 Notes & Queries 21 Mar. 208/1 In the dairy trade phrases such as ‘He has a milk-run’ or, ‘he has a milk-walk’..are common.
1942 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Nov. 13/2 A Winton (Q.) boundary rider..established his ‘milk run’ during the great rat plague.
1943 Yank 20 Jan. 6/1 The boys were rehashing the previous day's party, which they had dubbed the ‘Morning Milk Run’.
1944 T. H. Wisdom Triumph over Tunisia vi. 54 It was General Doolittle who organised the ‘milk-run’ Fortress raids on the ports of Tunis and Bizerta.
1964 Observer 11 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 17/2 Similar risks must be taken by transport aircraft pilots, flying their daily ‘milk runs’ to supply jungle-bound positions along the 1,000-mile frontier [of Borneo].
1969 Daily Tel. 11 Oct. 11/5 Another way of island hopping down to Grenada..is to catch the early morning ‘milk-run’ plane from Antigua, which calls in at Dominica, St. Lucia, Martinique and Barbados, collecting and unloading passengers, mail and newspapers as it goes.
1972 Guardian 30 Dec. 13 Woe betide any who suddenly discovers he has to go to Brussels the next morning. The businessmen's milkrun is always booked days ahead.
1991 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. a8 Their missions were not quite cakewalks or milk runs.
1992 Prairie Fire Autumn 183 She sits in the Winnipeg Union Station waiting to catch the milk run to Winnipegosis.
1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 77 The whole two-hundred-mile length of our Chesapeake, from Virginia Capes to C & D Canal, is a mere milk run for seasoned traversers of the Intracoastal Waterway.
milk sack n. (also milk sac) South African (now historical) a tightly stitched bag of animal hide in which curdled milk is prepared.
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1828 W. Shaw Diary 22 May in Dict. S. Afr. Eng. (1996) at Milk At supper tonight,..we had..Curded Milk, from the Milk sack.
1925 D. Kidd Essent. Kafir (ed. 2) 59 The hens and eggs should always be bought from the women and children, who, by the way, are not allowed on any account to touch the milk sac.
1985 S. Afr. Panorama May 5 Nokokwane, a musical bow with milk sac resonators which is extremely rare today.
milk scab n. now historical seborrhoeic dermatitis affecting the face or scalp of an infant; a lesion of seborrhoeic dermatitis.
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1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. vi. vii. 394 The milk scab comes at the first sucking, and after that the Achores, which are scabs that are not white.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Milk-Scab, another common term for Porrigo larvalis, or Crusta lactea, or milk-blotch.
1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities v. xxxii. 203 After asking about the presence of wens and milk scabs, the barber set upon Claude's face with special soap and a razor.
† milk scall n. Obsolete rare seborrhoeic dermatitis affecting the face or scalp of an infant; cf. earlier milky scall n. at milky adj. Compounds 2.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1844 R. Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 4) 465/2 Milk Scall, Porrigo larvalis.
† milk scarlatina n. Obsolete rare scarlatina spread by means of infected milk.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > scarlatina
scarlet fevera1651
scarlatina1771
rosalia1780
scarlatinine1842
scarlatinoid1885
milk scarlatina1887
1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Feb. 409/2 Mr. Power's report of the Hendon milk-scarlatina outbreak.
milk score n. a tally or other account of the purchase and sale of milk.
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1684 T. Otway Atheist v. 72 Thy rubbing Out Milk-scores, and lamb-blacking [sic] of Signs in Covent-Garden.
a1698 F. Sheppard Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. (1704) 225 A pack of Vermine, bred up to..rubbing out of Milk-scores.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 482. ¶4 He is better acquainted with the Milk Score, than his Steward's Accounts.
1891 E. Gosse Gossip in Library xiii. 164 She did not tottle up her milk-scores on the bastard-title [of a book].
1961 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 124 354 (heading) Correlations between milk score and weight of milk consumed.
milk sea n. rare a particular kind of phosphorescent appearance on the sea; cf. earlier milky sea n. at milky adj. Compounds 2.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > of the sea > phosphorescent light on or in the sea
briny1602
sea-light1755
sea-fire1815
milky sea1821
mareel1866
mar-fire1881
milk sea1898
witch-fire1947
1898 National Rev. Aug. 859 That beautiful, inexplicable phenomenon of the ‘milk sea’ suddenly appeared!
milk separator n. = cream-separator n. at cream n.2 Compounds 1b.
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1869 Sci. Amer. 28 Aug. 142/1 Official List of Patents issued by the United States Patent Office... Milk Separator Anna E. Baldwin, Newark, N.J.
1903 A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise xii. 285 Then he fell to work with the velocity of a milk-separator.
1991 H. Hauxwell & B. Cockcroft Hannah 246 After the breakfast things had been washed up I had to take the milk separator to bits and wash each part and dry them in front of the fire and then put them together again ready for the night's milking.
milk shake n. originally U.S. a cold drink made of milk, a sweet flavouring, and typically ice cream, mixed together as by shaking or whisking until smooth and frothy.
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the world > food and drink > drink > milk drinks > [noun]
rice milk1620
whig1684
leban1695
saloop1728
sack-whey1736
celery whey1761
mustard whey1769
wine whey1769
Scotch chocolate1785
whey-whig1811
chocolate milk1819
horchata1859
tamarind-whey1883
milk shake1886
Horlick1891
lassi1894
Ovaltine1906
shake1909
malt1942
malted1945
1886 Atlanta Constit. 26 May 7/2 Ice cream soda and milk shakes at Beermann's Palace Soda Stand, corner Peachtree and Decatur streets.
1937 Daily Herald 20 Feb. 11/3 (caption) Mrs.—..sampling a milk shake after she had opened a milk bar in Tottenham Court-road yesterday.
1952 ‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands xii. 196 I had a coupla bananas and a milk shake in Leicester Square.
1988 M. Atwood Cat's Eye (1989) xlv. 251 We're drinking vanilla milkshakes.
† milk shield n. Obsolete rare (a) a device invented to be placed over part of a cow's udder during milking (see quot. 1857); (b) = milk mirror n.
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1857 Sci. Amer. 17 Jan. 146/3 This milk shield is chiefly designed for milking cows, and is a good invention. It is frequently required to remove the pressure from one part of the teat.
1881 J. P. Sheldon Dairy Farming 7/2 This milk escutcheon, or shield, then, is one of those theories of which [etc.].
milk-sick n. and adj. (a) n. = milk sickness n. (now chiefly historical); (b) adj. affected with milk sickness; of or relating to milk sickness.
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1818 Missouri Gaz. & Public Advertiser (St. Louis) 14 Aug. 3/3 Milk-Sick. A disease by the above name prevails along the marshes of the American Bottom.
1867 Sci. Amer. 11 May 298/2 Cattle kept up until the dew was dried by the warm sun never were infected with the milk-sick poison.
1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Great Smoky Mountains ii. 46 The bars of the milk-sick pen... She [sc. a cow] lay down an' died o' the milk-sick.
1887 Science 1 July 6/2 I would no sooner touch this swill-milk than I would use milk from the most ‘milk-sick’ region of Illinois.
1946 G. Hutton Midwest at Noon 16 Thousands fell by the wayside, victims of agues, ‘the shakes’, the plagues like the fearful ‘milk-sick’.
1975 E. Wigginton Foxfire 3 84 They'd die, some of them would. Get that milksick. Couldn't get home.
1989 D. H. Fischer Albion's Seed 639 The disease called the ‘milk sick’ came to be a major problem.
milk sickness n. U.S. an often fatal disorder of humans characterized by vomiting, muscle tremors, respiratory difficulty, convulsions, and coma, caused by ingesting dairy products or meat from livestock that have grazed on white snakeroot ( Eupatorium rugosum) or rayless goldenrod ( Haplopappus heterophyllus); (also) the disorder of livestock caused by grazing on these plants (usually called trembles).
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1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. I. 76 Along the Missouri R. they have a disease called the milk sickness.
1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 9 Mar. in Winter in West (1835) II. 69 I passed a deserted village, the whole population of which had been destroyed by the ‘milk sickness’.
1844 Godey's Lady's Bk. Aug. 65 The next time she presented herself she was warded off as if she had been a personification of the black tongue or the milk sickness.
1919 J. P. Dunn Indiana & Indianans II. 804 From 1836 to 1856, the disease known as..‘milk sickness’, was encountered in numerous localities.
1942 L. Cannon Look to Mountain 315 The flies and the rattlesnakes..milk sickness in summer..all them 're a nuisance.
1972 Listener 21 Dec. 860/3 Their neighbours went down with the milk sickness picked up from cows that chewed on snake root.
1990 Vet. & Human Toxicol. 32 Suppl. 81 Resurgence of livestock production on small farm units, and utilization of fresh raw milk may result in milk sickness, if the animals have white snakeroot exposure.
milk sociable n. U.S. a sociable (sociable adj. 3) at which milk is drunk.
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1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 10 Alas, the Rube Town in which she Hung Forth was given over to Croquet, Mush and Milk Sociables.
1907 N. Munro Daft Days vi. 51 Why, great Queen of Sheba! I was only joshing you: it was as calm on that ship as a milk sociable.
1966 Amer. Lit. 38 207 The slim girl whose ‘Soul Panted for the Higher Life’.. was caught in a town ‘given over to croquet, Mush and Milk Sociables, a lodge for Elks and two Married Preachers who doctored for the Tonsilitis’.
milk solids n. (also milk solids not fat) the constituents of milk other than water and butterfat (chiefly casein, lactose, and minerals); the proportion of such constituents in a sample of milk.
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1875 Galaxy June 852 Skim milk shall contain not less than 9 per cent. by weight of milk solids not fat.
1904 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 482 Milk containing less than 12 per cent. of milk solids.
1972 Which? Sept. 263/2 The non-dairy ice creams we found with the highest amount of non-fat milk solids and fat were Ross Tudor..and Marine Ices.
1992 A. Waters Fanny at Chez Panisse 107 Clarified butter (clear butter) is what happens when you separate the butterfat from the milk solids.
milk spot n. (a) Medicine a white spot on a serosal surface or within an organ, representing a focus of fibrosis or inflammatory cells; (b) a lesion of the skin in an infant (perhaps a milium or a lesion of seborrhoeic dermatitis) (rare).
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1857 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) 560/2 Maculæ albæ, M. lacteæ,..Milk-spots, white spots on serous membranes, especially on that investing the heart.
1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Milk spot, a lustrous white spot, more or less sharply defined, which is often found upon the surface of the pericardium. It is a callosity resulting from the slight growth of new connective tissue... Also, a form of infantile strophulus.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 530 These thickenings..resemble the milk-spots on the heart.
1964 W. G. Smith Allergy & Tissue Metabolism iii. 34 Riley has described the formation of mast cells from undifferentiated mesenchymal cells in..the milk spots of omentum.
1989 Under Five Nov. 29/1 Milk spots..are caused by blocked sebaceous glands.
1993 Parasitol. Res. 79 240 Specific antibody correlated weakly with the number of liver milk spots recorded at slaughter.
milk store n. a shop selling milk; (Canadian) a local convenience store.
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1872 Boyd's Business Directory N.Y. State 405 Klayer Win. H. butter and milk store, 19 Prince.
1940 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 108 439/2 Certain of the cut-rate milk stores that handled the products of the Plaintiff Dairies were picketed by members of the Defendant Union.
1975 Chem. Week (Nexis) 2 July 15 Garden State Farms.., a milk store chain, has switched from glass containers to the polycarbonate jug.
1985 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 20 July i. 8 Until Wimbledon, I thought Becker was a milk store.
2000 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 11 Feb. 14 We must live with the thought that our next dog walk or trip to the milk store could be the last.
milk stout n. a kind of sweet stout made with lactose; also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > stout
stout1677
brown stout1803
Guinness1834
milk stout1910
1910 Times 11 July 4/5 (advt.) Lion Brewery milk-stout..is brewed from the best malt and hops and lactose (sugar of milk).
1936 Trade Marks Jrnl. 9 Dec. 1536/1 Mackeson's Milk Stout...570,470. Milk stout. Mackeson & Co., Limited..; Brewers...24th July, 1936.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 32 ‘There you are, gentlemen,’ boomed a rich, milk-stout voice.
1979 T. Foster Dr. Foster's Bk. Beer iii. 59 One variety which was popular until fairly recently was ‘milk stout’, whose sweetness came from addition to the beer of lactose.
1992 New Musical Express 28 Aug. 21/1 Gordon and I sit at a table as the old snowys sup their milk stouts.
milk sugar n. lactose.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > lactose
sugar of milk1753
milk sugar1846
lactose1847
galactose1862
1846 Penny Cycl. Suppl. II. 635/2 Milk-sugar is an integral constituent of the milk of the mammalia.
1878 C. T. Kingzett Animal Chem. 404 Milk sugar is also first converted into galactose before it ferments.
1925 T. Mojonnier & H. C. Troy Techn. Control Dairy Products (ed. 2) xiii. 300 Several commercial products commonly known by the general term ‘ice cream improvers’ are in common use. These consist of rennet or pepsin mixed with certain powders such as milk sugar.
1975 New Yorker 29 Sept. 91/1 Rafael had cut the ounce of heroin with two ounces of milk sugar.
1996 Sunday Post (Glasgow) 30 June 26/3 It fills your tummy without putting a strain on your digestion, and contains lactose, also called milk-sugar, which has a calming effect.
milk tart n. South African = melktert n.
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1896 O. Schreiner Fortn. Rev. Aug. 250 Dancing is kept up all night, large quantities of mutton, milk-tart, and boiled dried fruit and coffee being served up.
1930 M. Raubenheimer Tested S. Afr. Recipes 79 The original Recipe is for a milk tart filling, but it is better as a pudding.
2000 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 16 Aug. f4 Kevin Fraser sells..large rectangles of pastry with names such as grenadilla, tipsy and milk tarts. He can be reached at Cape Dutch Bakeries.
milk tea n. any of various drinks made with tea and milk or cream; esp. a drink originating in Hong Kong, made with black tea and evaporated or condensed milk. [In use with reference to China after Chinese (Mandarin) nǎichá (1885 or earlier; < nǎi milk + chá tea: see cha n.), in use with specific reference to Hong Kong after its Cantonese equivalent náaih chàh.]
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1897 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 176 A decoction known as nai-ch'a, or ‘milk-tea’, is drunk at the Manchu court, and is served out on state occasions.
1966 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 3 Aug. 5/2 It is proposed to provide a lunch consisting of milk tea, bread and butter.
1999 C. B. Divakaruni Sister of my Heart i. xvii. 139 He waves away the hot kachuris stuffed with spicy peas and shakes his head at the steaming milk tea.
2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 24 July (Travel section) 10/5 Locals can be fanatical about Hong Kong-style milk tea, a mixture of black tea and evaporated milk.
† milk thrush n. Obsolete rare oral candidiasis (thrush).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > thrush
aphtha?a1425
thrush1665
sprue1802
milk thrush1844
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > mycosis > aphtha
aphtha?a1425
thrush1665
sprue1802
milk thrush1844
1844 R. Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 4) Aphthæ, thrush or sore mouth... White Thrush. Milk Thrush.
milk-tie n. rare = milk kinship n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > adoptive or foster relationship
adoptionc1384
milk-tie1870
milk kinship1885
1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) iii. 66 The symbol of adoption represented not the birth, but the milk-tie.
1955 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 85 60 Even a child might be married to the common wife by the milk-tie, and when he grew up claim conjugal rights in his much older wife.
milk toast n. U.S. toast softened in milk; cf. Milquetoast n. and adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread dish > [noun] > sops
brewisc1440
pain perdua1450
bread and milk1549
sugar-sops1581
Poor Knights1659
breadberry1715
milk toast1840
sop1845
kettle-broth1880
slinger1882
1840 E. Leslie Directions for Cookery (ed. 10) 446 Milk toast is generally eaten at breakfast.
1855 J. R. Beste Wabash II. 260 Large platters of milk toast. This delicacy is made of slices of toast, buttered and sprinkled with pepper and salt, and laid in a dish of warm milk, which serves as a sauce to the rest.
1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm xxiii. 258 She's just asked me for some milk-toast.
1989 M. Amis London Fields vi. 83 Milk toast, thought Guy. An American dish, served with honey or syrup.
milk train n. a train that runs very early in the morning, chiefly to transport milk, but also carrying some passengers; also figurative.
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society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > a flight through air or space > for reconnaissance
milk train1853
patrol1917
rover1942
society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > goods train > carrying other specific things
provision train1778
luggage train1846
newspaper train1847
milk train1853
1853 Knickerbocker 42 532 The ‘milk-train’ still had the right of way.
1897 Chicago Record 1 Mar. 6/1 ‘Milk trains’..have ‘rights’ over the rails and get nothing but ‘high balls’.
1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves ix. 251 Her intention was..to..leave by the next train, even if that train was a milk-train, stopping at every station.
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 46 The Milk Train, appropriate name for the modern ‘Dawn Patrol’ on early morning reconnaissance flights.
1990 D. McIntosh Visits 14 The first train out in the morning going my way was a milk train with one passenger car.
milk tube n. †(a) a duct of a mammary gland (cf. milk duct n. (b)) (obsolete); (b) a catheter used to obtain milk from the teat of a cow; (c) a laticiferous vessel of a plant; a laticiferous hypha of a fungus.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking machinery or apparatus
milk tube1839
siphon1844
tapper1884
pulsator1907
releaser1913
inflation-rubber1950
milk line1950
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 246/2 The nipple or mammilla consists of the common integuments, fascia, milk-tubes, [etc.].
1877 Rep. Vermont Dairymen's Assoc. 8 106 The milk must be drawn by means of a catheter, or milk tube.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 198 The sharp difference of structure between the sieve- and milk-tubes is always particularly clear.
1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 185 The milk tube or trochar, was inserted different depths.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 409/1 In one genus (Lactarius) ‘milk-tubes’, recalling the lactiferous tubes of many vascular plants, are found.
1932 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 19 11 He..claimed that circulation, coagulation, and blood corpuscles were all duplicated in the phenomena which he observed in the milk tubes.
1981 F. R. Lowe Milking Machines x. 108 Without these shut-offs on the short milk tubes it would be almost impossible to attach the unit to the udder due to the loss of vacuum.
milk-walk n. now rare = milk round n. (a).
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > milkman's delivery round
milk-walk1805
milk round1865
milk route1874
milk run1909
society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of milk > milkman's route
milk-walk1805
1805 Mod. London App. Milk-Walks, that is, a certain proportion of neighbouring streets served by a particular person.
c1864 W. Brough & ‘A. Halliday’ in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1973) IV. 240 I have a horse and cart, Miss Penelope, and a first-rate milk walk.
1905 G. B. Shaw in Grand Mag. Feb. 111 He..had..bought an agent's business as a doctor buys a practice or a dairyman a milkwalk.
1925 Notes & Queries 21 Mar. 208/1 In the dairy trade phrases such as ‘He has a milk-run’ or, ‘he has a milk-walk’..are common.
1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Dec. 50/4 Hogarth shows her pacing her ‘milk-walk’, a territory that was bought and sold.
† milk water n. Obsolete a cordial distilled from milk and herbs.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > cordial > [noun] > kinds of
water of milk1542
wormwood wine1565
milk water1602
wormwood water1612
mint water1639
persico1709
saffron cordial1728
peppermint water1756
pimento water1760
mint tea1764
peppermintc1770
rum shrub1788
ginger brandy1838
peppermint cordial1847
cloves1853
currant-shrub1856
shrub1861
1602 N. Breton Wonders Worth Hearing sig. C3 But if your wines be Small hedge wines, or haue taken salt water, and you Either by brewing them with milke water, or other Trumperies, or by mingling one with another, and so Marre both to help one.
1696 J. Pechey tr. T. Sydenham Whole Wks. iv. vi. 149 A small quantity of calcined Harts-horn..is very good, but Milk-water..is better.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper xviii. 346 To distill Milk Water.
† milk way n. [compare Dutch melkweg (1655), early modern German milchweg (15th cent.)] Obsolete = Milky Way n. 1, 2a.
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the world > the universe > constellation > galaxy > [noun] > Milky Way
wayeOE
Watling Streetc1384
galaxya1398
milky circlea1398
Milky Wayc1450
milk way1555
milk-white way1555
white circle1563
milken waya1586
milken race1596
milk circle1601
Via Lactea1615
lacteous circle1646
Milky Way1854
Walsingham Wayc1878
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 245v The parte of heauen cauled Via Lactea, that is the mylke waye.
1593 G. Harvey New Let. Notable Contents B The ascending scale and Milk-way to heauenly excellency.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Cándida, the milke way in heauen.
milk-whisky n. rare = koumiss n.
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1906 N.E.D. at Milk sb.1 Milk-whisky.
† milk-wife n. Obsolete = milk-woman n.
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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
1444 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 293 (MED) That noone herbe wife, milke wife, ne sellere of Boowis..bringe noone to selle upon the Sonday.
1511 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Payd to þe mylke wyffe for a hoole yere.
1526 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 312 Item, to the milk wiffe, for her leveray claithis, be the Kingis precept... iiii łi. iiii. s.
1543 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1936) III. 72 Ane lettir maid to Jonet McGe makand hir mylk-wiffe to the quenis grace.
milk-wine n. = koumiss n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > non-grape and home-made wines > [noun] > others
cherry-winea1665
morello winea1665
strawberry winea1665
orange wine1675
raspberry wine1676
birch-wine1681
grape-wine1718
cowslip wine1723
barley wine1728
ginger wine1734
gooseberry1766
raspberry1768
mead-wine1794
parsnip wine1830
milk-wine1837
tea-wine1892
1837 Mag. Domest. Econ. Sept. 66 A lady and two gentlemen,..whose lives have been saved by the virtues of the milk-wine of the Tartars.
1911 M. I. Newbigin Mod. Geogr. vii. 189 A milk-wine or koumiss, produced by the fermentation of milk, is the characteristic drink.
milk-woman n. (a) chiefly Scottish, a woman in milk, a wet nurse; (b) a female vendor of milk.
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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
1605 in C. B. Gunn Drumelzier Church (1931) 18 That every brother..use such exquisite trial of the milk-women as is possible.
1618 in W. Fraser Memorials Montgomeries (1859) I. 207 As concerning your dochter Elinor, I am verye glaid that ye haue gottin ane young milk woman to hir, seing hir mamye proued not sufficient.
1635 H. G. Heavens Speedie Hue & Cry 18 One thing more I will commend unto you, the modesty of a milke-woman, in finding him naked, covered him with her approne.
1707 C. Cibber School-boy i. 3 The puppy will play, though he knows no more of the Lay, than a Milkwoman.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack ii. 8 Her mother had long scores against the first nobles in the land (she was a milk-woman), and that she had dry-nursed a young baronet.
1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xl. 338 [The] milkwoman..clanked her pails down.
1921 J. Buchan Path of King x. 195 No sooner was he in Paddington than, after buying a glass of milk from a milk-woman, he set off citywards again.
1993 Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 20/7 The organisers from the National Dairy Council described her awkwardly as a milkwoman.
b. In the names of plants and fungi, chiefly in the sense ‘containing a milky fluid’.
milk cap n. any of various fungi of the genus Lactarius (family Russulaceae), which exude a milky latex when broken; cf. milky cap n. at milky adj. Compounds 2.
ΚΠ
1887 W. D. Hay Elem. Textbk. Brit. Fungus Index 236 Milk-cap..Russula lactea.
1945 M. C. Rayner Trees & Toadstools i. 12 The orange-coloured toadstools with yellow milky juice of the Saffron Milk Cap or Delicious Lactarius (Lactarius deliciosus) were valued as food in the ancient world.
1992 New Scientist 18 Jan. 39/2 The saffron milk cap (Lactarius deliciosus) is an odd yellow colour... The woolly milk cap (Lactarius torminosus) looks a lot more welcoming but is poisonous.
milk drop n. a small delicate grey or white toadstool of leaf litter, Mycena galopus, which yields a latex when broken.
ΚΠ
1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants 132/2 Mycena galopus (‘Milk Drop’) grows on small pieces of wood and twigs amongst dead leaves from late summer until early winter.
1991 D. Pegler Field Guide Mushrooms & Toadstools Brit. & Europe 57 Mycena galopus Milk-drop Mycena. The stem of this Mycena releases a copious white liquid when broken.
milk grass n. †(a) corn salad, Valerianella locusta (obsolete); (b) Caribbean a kind of spurge (cf. milkweed n. 1).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > other leaf vegetables
corn-salad1597
palmetto1598
frost-blite1711
corn rocket1731
Welsh onion1731
milk grass1746
square-podded rocket1753
lamb's quarter1773
Shawnee salad1780
palmiste1835
1746 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. May xxi. 161 In June, at a Distance, the Fields look as if all covered with spilt Milk; which is from a Flower, for that reason called Milk-Grass—(Lamb-Lettuce).
1998 S. Carrington Wild Plants Eastern Caribbean 54/2 Chamaesyce hirta (L.) Millsp. milk weed/grass; asthma plant... All parts exuding a white latex on bruising.
† milk hedge n. Obsolete a hedge of milk-bush (see milk-bush n. (a)); cf. earlier milky-hedge n. at milky adj. Compounds 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > spurges and allies > [noun]
physic nut1657
milk-bush1696
milk-tree1698
poison-bush1740
jatropha1754
milky-hedge1773
milk hedge1780
chandelier plant1827
Jew bush1830
candelabrum1834
poinsettia1836
slipper-plant1848
coquillo1851
zebra poison1871
oil tree1879
picture-tree1885
slipper spurs1887
monkey fiddle1913
milk plant1965
stringwood-
1780 I. Munro Narr. Mil. Operations (1789) 80 A horse will have his head and eyes prodigiously swelled from standing for some time under the shade of a milk hedge.
1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands II. vi. 183 The..green rows of the milk hedges.
milk lentil n. rare a plant of uncertain identity; (perhaps) milkwort, Polygala vulgaris, or a leguminous plant with milky sap, such as a milk vetch (genus Astragalus) or a milk pea (genus Galactia) both of the family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
ΚΠ
1906 N.E.D. at Milk sb.1 Milk lentil = milkwort (?).
† milkmaidens n. British regional Obsolete lady's smock, Cardamine pratensis (cf. milkmaid n. 2b).
ΚΠ
1836 A. E. Bray Descr. Devonshire bordering Tamar & Tavy I. 274 ‘Milkmaidens’ are little white flowers that grow in the meadows, or on the banks of running streams.
milk pea n. any of several prostrate plants of the genus Galactia (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), native to the warmer parts of America.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants
peaseOE
vetchc1400
hatchet vetch1548
mock liquorice1548
scorpion's tail1548
ax-fitch1562
ax-seed1562
axwort1562
treacle clover1562
lady's finger1575
bird's-foot1578
goat's rue1578
horseshoe1578
caterpillar1597
kidney-vetch1597
horseshoe-vetch1640
goat rue1657
kidney-fetch1671
galega1685
stanch1726
scorpion senna1731
Dolichos1753
Sophora1753
partridge pea1787
bauhinia1790
coronilla1793
swamp pea-tree1796
Mysore thorn1814
devil's shoestring1817
pencil flower1817
rattlebox1817
Canavalia1828
milk plant1830
joint-vetch1836
milk pea1843
prairie clover1857
oxytrope1858
rattleweed1864
wart-herb1864
snail-flower1866
poison pea1884
masu1900
money bush1924
Townsville stylo1970
orange bird's-foot2007
1843 J. Torrey Flora State N.Y. I. 162 Galactia... Milk Pea.
1941 Amer. Midland Naturalist 26 564 Mr. Allard finds that this flora shows certain affinities with that of the coastal plain, as exemplified by the milk pea (Galactia regularis).
1982 C. R. Bell & B. J. Taylor Florida Wild Flowers 163 Milk Pea, Galactia elliottii Nuttall.
milk plant n. any of various plants yielding a milky juice, esp. (a) U.S. = milk pea n.; (b) Australian any of various spurges, esp. Euphorbia drummondii.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants
peaseOE
vetchc1400
hatchet vetch1548
mock liquorice1548
scorpion's tail1548
ax-fitch1562
ax-seed1562
axwort1562
treacle clover1562
lady's finger1575
bird's-foot1578
goat's rue1578
horseshoe1578
caterpillar1597
kidney-vetch1597
horseshoe-vetch1640
goat rue1657
kidney-fetch1671
galega1685
stanch1726
scorpion senna1731
Dolichos1753
Sophora1753
partridge pea1787
bauhinia1790
coronilla1793
swamp pea-tree1796
Mysore thorn1814
devil's shoestring1817
pencil flower1817
rattlebox1817
Canavalia1828
milk plant1830
joint-vetch1836
milk pea1843
prairie clover1857
oxytrope1858
rattleweed1864
wart-herb1864
snail-flower1866
poison pea1884
masu1900
money bush1924
Townsville stylo1970
orange bird's-foot2007
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > spurges and allies > [noun]
physic nut1657
milk-bush1696
milk-tree1698
poison-bush1740
jatropha1754
milky-hedge1773
milk hedge1780
chandelier plant1827
Jew bush1830
candelabrum1834
poinsettia1836
slipper-plant1848
coquillo1851
zebra poison1871
oil tree1879
picture-tree1885
slipper spurs1887
monkey fiddle1913
milk plant1965
stringwood-
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 105 The Jew Bush, or Milk plant, is used..as an antisyphilitic.
1843 J. C. Frémont Rep. Explor. Rocky Mts. 16 Along the river bottom, tradescantia (virginica) and milk plant (asclepias syriaca,) in considerable quantities.
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) App. 104 Galactia mollis... Milk plant.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 127 Euphorbia Drummondii... Called ‘Caustic Creeper’ in Queensland. Called ‘Milk Plant’ and ‘Pox Plant’ about Bourke. This weed is unquestionably poisonous to sheep.
1965 Austral. Encycl. VI. 84/1 Milk plant is sometimes applied to members of the genus Euphorbia.
milk purslane n. any of several small North American spurges, esp. Euphorbia maculata.
ΚΠ
1828 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. I. 181 Euphorbia corollata... Milk-purslain.
1843 J. Torrey Flora State N.Y. II. 176 Milk Purselane. Small spurge.
1908 B. L. Robinson & M. L. Fernald Gray's New Man. Bot. (ed. 7) 547 E[uphorbia] maculata L. (Milk Purslane).
1968 R. T. Peterson & M. McKenny Field Guide Wildflowers Northeastern & North-central N. Amer. 42 Milk-purslane, Euphorbia supina.
1993 Conservation Biol. 10 38/2 Plant species reported present at the Middlesex Fells (West), Boston, in 1894 but not found in 1993... Euphorbia maculata milk purslane.
† milk-reed n. Obsolete rare a spurge.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Euphorbiaceae (spurges and allies) > [noun]
catapucec1386
Euphorbiaa1398
spurgea1400
tithymala1400
faitour's grassc1440
cat's-grassc1450
nettlewort1523
essell1527
lint-spurge1548
sea wartwort1548
spurge thyme1548
line-spurge1562
myrtle spurge1562
sun spurge1562
wolf's-milk1575
cypress tithymal1578
devil's milk1578
mercury1578
sea-spurge1597
sun tithymal1597
welcome to our house1597
wood-spurge1597
Euphorbium1606
milk-reed1611
milkwort1640
sun-turning spurge1640
spurge-wort1647
caper-bush1673
Portland spurge1715
milkweed1736
Medusa's head1760
little-good1808
welcome-home-husband1828
three-seeded mercury1846
cat's-milk1861
turnsole1863–79
mole-tree1864
snow-on-the-mountain1873
seven sisters1879
caper-plant1882
asthma herb1887
mountain snow1889
crown of thorns1890
olifants melkbos1898
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues L'herbe laictiere. Tythimal, Spurge, Milke-reed, Wolues-milke.
† milk trefoil n. Obsolete the tree medick, Medicago arborea.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > tree-trefoil
tree-trefoil1552
pretiefollie1591
milk trefoil1597
shrub trefoil1597
tetrifolie1601
moon trefoil1659
tree medick1884
1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1121 Of milke Trefoile, or shrub Trefoile.
a1678 T. Hanmer Garden Bk. (1933) 120 Shrub Trefoyle or Milk Trefoile is a plant which hath many diversityes of it... They have yellow Broome flowers.

Derivatives

ˈmilklike adj.
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1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things v. 1028 Milk-like nurture from her bosom flowed.
1826 Lancet 20 May 227/1 The food thus altered and converted into a milk-like fluid called chyle, is in a fit state to be absorbed.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xv. 257 I've my doubts whether city people'll care for anything [sc. ballad-singing] so milk-like.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 1 Mar. 8/2 Sulphur, in its natural state, is a solid and it is impossible to blend this with the milk-like latex.
1994 Dog World Aug. 174/2 In the first 24 to 72 hours the bitch produces milklike colostrum, which contains maternal antibodies to help the puppy fight off disease until his or her own immune system is stimulated to provide immunity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

milkn.2

Brit. /mɪlk/, U.S. /mɪlk/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: milksop n.
Etymology: Short for milksop n.
colloquial. rare.
= milksop n. 1a.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man
badlingeOE
milksopc1390
cockneyc1405
malkina1425
molla1425
weakling1526
tenderling1541
softling1543
niceling1549
woman-man1567
cocknel1570
effeminate1583
androgyne1587
meacock1590
mammaday1593
hermaphrodite1594
midwife1596
nimfadoro1600
night-sneaker1611
mock-mana1625
nan1670
she-man1675
petit maître1711
old woman1717
master-miss1754
Miss Molly1754
molly1785
squaw1805
mollycoddle1823
Miss Nancy1824
mollycot1826
molly mop1829
poof1833
Margery?c1855
ladyboy1857
girl1862
Mary Ann1868
sissy1879
milk1881
pretty-boy1881
nancy1888
poofter1889
Nancy Dawson1890
softie1895
puff1902
pussy1904
Lizzie1905
nance1910
quean1910
maricon1921
pie-face1922
bitch1923
Jessie1923
lily1923
tapette1923
pansy1926
nancy boy1927
nelly1931
femme1932
ponce1932
queerie1933
palone1934
queenie1935
girlie-man1940
swish1941
puss1942
wonk1945
mother1947
candy-ass1953
twink1953
cream puff1958
pronk1959
swishy1959
limp wrist1960
pansy-ass1963
weeny1963
poofteroo1966
mo1968
shim1973
twinkie1977
woofter1977
cake boy1992
hermaphrodite-
1881 Punch 10 Sept. 110/2 Patriotic? Well, them as talks Muggins like that to our gurls must be milks.
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang (at cited word) Milk, milksop.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

milkv.

Brit. /mɪlk/, U.S. /mɪlk/
Forms:

α. Old English melcan, Old English melkan (rare).

β. Old English melcian, Old English meolcian, Old English mylcian, late Old English milcian.

γ. Middle English melke, Middle English mulke, Middle English–1500s mylke, Middle English–1600s milke, 1500s molke, 1500s mylcke, 1500s mylk, 1500s– milk, 1700s milck, 1900s– mulkee (English regional (Devon)); Scottish pre-1700 melk, pre-1700 mylk, pre-1700 1700s– milk.

Past Tense

α. Old English mealc (1st and 3rd singular).

β. Old English meolcode (1st and 3rd singular), Old English mylcedon (plural).

γ. Middle English mylked, Middle English mylkede, Middle English mylkid, late Middle English 1600s– milked, 1500s–1600s 1800s milkt; Scottish 1800s– milked, 1800s– milkit.

Past participle

α. Old English gemolcen, Old English molcen.

γ. Middle English imilked, Middle English melked, Middle English mylkid, Middle English mylkyd, Middle English ymelked, Middle English–1500s molken (rare), Middle English–1500s mylked, Middle English– milked, 1500s mylcked, 1600s milkt; Scottish pre-1700 milkyt, pre-1700 mylkyt, pre-1700 1700s– milkit, 1800s– milked, 1900s– milket.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a word inherited from Germanic. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: milk n.1
Etymology: A merging of two distinct words: (i) (represented by the α. forms) an Old English strong verb of Class III (melcan ), cognate with Old Frisian melka (West Frisian melke ), Middle Dutch melken (Dutch melken ), Middle Low German melken , Old High German melcan , melchan (Middle High German melken , melchen , German melken ) (in all of these languages the verb is now in the process of becoming weak) < an Indo-European base meaning ‘to milk’, compare (with various ablaut grades) ancient Greek ἀμέλγειν , classical Latin mulgēre , Early Irish bligid ( < mligid ), Tocharian A mālk- , Russian Church Slavonic mlěsti and Old Russian mlěsti (stem mŭlz- ), Bulgarian mălzja , Lithuanian melžti , milžti , Albanian mjel , all in sense ‘to milk’ (compare also Early Irish melg milk, Serbian mlaz , Croatian mlaz jet, spurt (originally of milk), Russian molozivo , Czech mlezivo , Slovene mlezivo , all in sense ‘colostrum’); an original sense ‘to rub’ has been suggested for the Indo-European base on the evidence of Sanskrit mṛj- , Iranian marǰ- , both in sense ‘to rub off, clean’; and (ii) (represented by the β. forms) an Old English weak verb (meolcian) < milk n.1; compare Old Saxon milcon, Old Icelandic mjólka, Swedish mjölka, Danish †melke; compare also ( < the zero-grade of the Germanic base of the strong verb) Old Icelandic molka (also mylkja to suckle, give suck), Old Swedish molka (Swedish regional molka), Old Danish molchæ (Danish malke).The γ. forms represent later reflexes of the Old English α and β forms. The strong inflections of the past tense had already disappeared by the beginning of the Middle English period; occasional examples of the strong past participle are attested up to the first half of the 16th cent. Earlier use of sense 1e is perhaps implied by Old English meolciend sucking babe (glossing Latin lactens in Psalm 8:2; see -end suffix1). In Old English the prefixed form of the weak verb, (Northumbrian) gemilciga, is also attested; compare also amelcan, to milk, prefixed form of the strong verb.
I. Senses relating to extracting or drawing out milk from a cow, etc.
1.
a. transitive. To draw milk from (a cow or other domesticated mammal), traditionally by hand, or more recently mechanically; to draw milk from (a teat or breast).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)] > milk an animal
milkOE
milch1570
draw1792
spank1897
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (intransitive)] > eject milk
milka1450
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 15 Sept. 209 Se geþyrsta mon meolcode ða hinde ond dranc þa meolc.
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 7 Mar. (2013) 62 He..corn ðærsc ond þæt windwode, ond ewa mealc, ond ða cealfas to cuum lædde.
lOE Prognostics (Hatton) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1912) 129 44 Hyt bið æac god ceap to milciane.
c1300 St. Kenelm (Laud) 230 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 351 Heo ne ȝaf a-morewe noþe lasse þei heo were i-milked [c1300 Harl. y-melked] an eue.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 359 Wymmen were i-woned..forto schape hem self in liknes of hares for to melke here neiȝhebores keen.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 131v (MED) Þe brest akkeþ when þe womman milkeþ her brest.
?1449 W. Tailboys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 75 He speke with wemen which were mylkand kye.
a1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Bodl. e Mus.) 51 (MED) There she..mylkede here pappis vpon stonis of red marbil.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope sig. B2 v By cause the swyne is not acustomed to be molken ne to be shorne but to be laten blood & lese his lyf therfore he is aferd & dredeth whan he is taken.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 636/1 I mylke a womans brest, je tire du laict dune femme.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. v. sig. Q7v He did not like that maides should once stirre out of their fathers houses, but if it were to milke a cow.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe iii. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Oo2v/2 And can you milke a Cow? and make a merry-bush [perh. read -buck or -bouk]?
a1669 Skene Agric. MS in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue And shoe be a good kow they will mak two paips to gaine the calf and milk the other two.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. ix. 289 He..sitting down, to milk his flocks prepares.
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 382 This cow being troublesome..he had..milked her himself.
1885 T. Mozley Reminisc. Towns (ed. 2) II. xcvii. 244 I remember a poor neighbour home from the fair a fine cow with every indication of a good milker. The next morning she was dry. She had the trick of milking herself.
1890 G. Gissing Emancipated I. v. 149 In the street below was passing a flock of she-goats, all ready to be milked.
a1953 D. Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 6 Who milks the cows in Maesgwyn?
1983 R. Sutcliff Blue Remembered Hills (1984) ii. 12 The goats were led from door to door to be milked into jugs which the women brought out for the purpose.
b. intransitive. To draw milk from a mammal, esp. a dairy animal.In quot. a1616 probably used punningly (cf. senses 5a, 12).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [verb (intransitive)] > milk
milkeOE
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. lxvii. 142 Þæt fæt, þe þu wille on melcan.
OE Monasteriales Indicia (1996) lxvi. 34 Gyf þe meolce lyste þonne strocca þu þinne wynstra finger mid þinre swyþran hande þam gelice swylce þu melce.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 274 She can milke, looke you, a sweet vertue in a maid with cleane hands. View more context for this quotation
1718 A. Pope Corr. 1 Sept. (1956) I. 494 When she milk'd, it was his morning & evening charge to bring the Cows to her pail.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. ii. 78 To leave the Green-swaird Dance, when we gae milk.
1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. viii. 323 You must truss up a cow's tail if you don't want to be switched when you are milking.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xvii. 222 He wore the ordinary white pinner..of a dairy-farmer when milking.
1914 E. P. Stewart Lett. Woman Homesteader v. 50 They stayed with us almost a week, and one day when Gale and I were milking she asked me to invite her to stay with me a month.
1989 G. Cross On Edge 139 Giving her a polite, mechanical smile she went on milking, waiting for an explanation.
c. transitive. In passive. To draw out or extract (milk).In quot. eOE with butter used metonymically as object.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)] > extract milk
milkeOE
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. xlv. 112 Aþwer buteran þe sie gemolcen of anes bleos nytne oððe hinde.
a1325 St. Bridget (Corpus Cambr.) 70 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 39 (MED) Wiþ þe milk al hot imilked þat child he makede clene.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 319 Milk..þe nerre it is y-melked, þe bettre it is.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 112 (MED) And it bihoueþ þat he drynke it [sc. milk] whilez it is mylked.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 1365 (MED) He broughte a coppe wyþ milk..Þat milked was of a whit hynde.
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Giv The mylke whiche is molken [Ger. gemolken] in the mornynge.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 146 All milke that is milked in springtime, is watrisher then the milke of sommer.
1830 Dr. Anderson in J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 159 If the same milk had been put into the milk-pans directly after it is milked.
1962 J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. & Allied Terminol. 769/1 Strip cup, a small metal cup..into which the first streams of milk from each teat are milked from the cow for examination.
†d. transitive. To cause (milk) to flow. Also with out. Obsolete.In quot. a1382 in figurative context.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)] > cause milk to flow
milka1382
juice1915
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job x. 10 Whether not as mylc thou hast mylkid [L. mulsisti] me, and as chese thou hast crudded me?
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 36 For scho had to mykill mylke in her pappes..scho mylked it oute apon þe reed stanes.
c1450 Practica Phisicalia John of Burgundy in H. Schöffler Mittelengl. Medizinlit. (1919) 259 (MED) Let hur mylke a drop of mylke out of hyr ryȝt breyst in-to a dysche of fayr water.
?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe i. f. ivv Also ye muste shaue hys head, and mylke thereon womans mylke.
1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xxxv. § 415 A dairy-maid milketh out milk latching it in a milk-paile.
†e. transitive. [See etymological note.] To obtain milk from (a mammal) by sucking. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (transitive)] > suck > milk or the breast
suckc825
lap1562
milka1616
suckle1971
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 55 I haue giuen Sucke, and know How tender 'tis to loue the Babe that milkes me. View more context for this quotation
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxi. 211 You'd see a muddy sow and a litter of pigs come lazying along the street..and she'd stretch out, and shut her eyes, and wave her ears, whilst the pigs was milking her.
f. transitive. To keep (cattle) for the purpose of milking. Of a farm: to support or sustain (cattle) for the purpose of milking.
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1898 Westm. Gaz. 4 Apr. 10/1 The largest farmer in England..milks at least a thousand cows.
?a1927 F. S. Anthony Follow Call (1936) 11 [This property] will milk twenty cows.
1992 Farmers Guardian 7 Aug. 16/2 Although the farm milks only 50 cows, it runs over 100 followers.
2.
a. transitive. To suckle (a child, etc.). In early use also intransitive. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > suckle
feedc950
milkOE
nourisha1382
suckle1408
alact1512
elacta1521
nursea1530
suck1607
uberate1623
breastfeed1869
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > action or process of secreting > secreting spec. > [verb (intransitive)] > secrete milk
milkOE
lactate1889
OE Blickling Homilies 93 Eadige syndon þa innoþas þa þe næfre ne cendon, & þa breost þa þe næfre meolcgende næron.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lx. 16 With the tete of kingis thou shalt be mylkid.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 5418 For lyche a moder she [sc. Fortune] can cherish, And mylken as doth a norys.
?a1425 Proclamation Lucifer in MS Huntington HM 114 f. 324v (MED) Our speciall doghtir Simonye, which ye wiþ ȝour owne pappes have norisshid, mylkyd, & broght forþ.
a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 6456 Glorius virgin..which milkest with-all The sone of god with thy brestes brod.
?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 1v A Bitche..fed him, and mylkt him.
1987 in M. Haynes Trinidad & Tobago (Plus) 79 De las' baby, aftah ah stop milkin' 'er ah develop de problum.
†b. intransitive. To express milk. Obsolete.
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a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 110 (MED) [She] toke out hyr..pappe and mylked on hys þrote.
3.
a. intransitive. Of an animal, especially a cow: to secrete or yield milk.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [verb (intransitive)] > to give milk
milka1425
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 68 Vbero, to mylke.
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 225 The eating of the first shoots of rye makes ewes milk extraordinarily.
1801 J. Thomson Poems Sc. Dial. 20 How milk the kye? How draw the horse?
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 178 Some of the breeds of sheep milk very heavily.
1941 C. Reynolds Glory Hill Farm iii. 29 She has given 4,054 lb. in 321 days, and is still milking, although due to calve again.
1992 Independent 24 July 7/1 He has 150 Friesians, 125 of which are milking at any one time.
2001 Guardian 10 July ii. 20/2 Some [ewes] were Frieslands, a breed reckoned to milk well.
b. to milk out: (a) intransitive (of cattle) to yield all the milk in the udders; (b) transitive to empty (the udder) of milk.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > dairy farm [verb (transitive)] > draw last milk from
stroke1538
strip?1610
jib1728
strap1854
strop1884
to milk out1950
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. June 568/1 Farm Dairy Instructors hear many complaints about teat cups dropping off, vacuum being too low, slow milking, cows not milking out, etc.
1970 Southerly 30 16 When he had milked her out, leaving enough in the now flaccid teats for the calf.
1973 Country Life 28 June 1904/1 A cow which milks out quickly is finally subjected to a second gentle milking phase as milk flow is reduced.
1981 F. Manolson & A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry vii. 190/1 Summer mastitis... The disease is readily detected in milking cows as the milk from the affected quarter soon becomes thick and bloodstained. The udder should be bathed with hot water and frequently milked out.
4. transitive. To saturate with milk; to put milk into or on to.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > season [verb (transitive)] > flavour in other ways
saffronc1386
milk?a1565
hop1572
juniperate1605
beginger1611
macea1634
caryophyllate1651
fruit1736
onion1755
mustard1851
clove1883
lemon1883
herb1922
sherry1970
?a1565 tr. Albertus Magnus Bk. Secretes sig. K iv After perfume some of them [sc. grains] vpon a fyre of cowes doung, which is milked.
1877 Trans. Devon Soc. Adv. Sci. 9 134 Have you milked your tea?
1969 J. Wainwright Big Tickle 52 She milked and sugared both mugs of tea.
1992 M. J. Staples Pearly Queen (BNC) 30 Dad poured the tea, Patsy milking the cups.
II. Senses relating to the extraction of advantage, effect, etc., from a situation.
5.
a. transitive. To deprive or defraud (a person, etc.) (†from, of money, etc.), esp. by taking regular amounts over a period of time; to exploit, turn into a source of (frequently illicit) profit, advantage, information, etc.; to extract all possible advantage from. Also (in extended use): to drain away the contents from (in figurative contexts).
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the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > fleece
milk?1531
shred1548
suck1558
shear1570
fleece1575
shave1606
unfleece1609
jib1728
skin1819
sweat1847
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > exploit or take advantage of
to take (the) advantagea1393
milk?1531
presume1580
to play upon ——1603
milch1614
to grow on or upona1616
play1656
impose1670
exploit1838
manipulate1862
over-exploit1899
slug1946
to get over1979
?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye To Rdr. sig. a5 This their paynfull purgatorye..hath of longe tyme but deceaued the people and milked them from their monye.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 639/2 They mylke them so euaungelically, that when their maisters call theim home, they gyue theim a very shrewed rekening.
1537 Bible (Matthew's) Ezek. xviii. Comm. (end) Or yt the prestes benefyces were not sufficient for them to lyue on, with out soch pyllage: or yet that the pore people coulde by any other meane be mylcked from that thynge, wherwyth they, their wyues, their housholde and chyldren shulde lyue.
1591 J. Lyly Endimion iii. iii. sig. Ev Loue hath as it were milkt my thoughts, and drained from my hart the very substance of my accustomed courage.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. ii. sig. B4 Now, my fain'd Cough, my Pthisick, and my Goute,..Helpe, with your forced functions, this my posture, Wherein, this three yeare, I have milk'd their hopes. View more context for this quotation
a1691 P. Ventris Rep. (1696) ii. 28 He would milk her Purse and fill his own large Pockets.
1721 A. Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 51 [Spain] grasps the shadows, but the substance tines, While a' the rest of Europe milk her mines.
1893 E. Saltus Madam Sapphira 204 ‘They have got something,’ he would insist, ‘or else Tooth is milking his client.’
1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxv. 307 Agents in all the Northern cities were ‘milking’ the pool-rooms.
1944 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 11 Mar. 8/6 Fund-raising phonies have milked the public of thousands of dollars.
1958 ‘A. Burgess’ Enemy in Blanket xvi. 183 He would milk the white man; he would ask him for two dollars for the double journey.
1988 Pract. Motorist Feb. 20/2 Having approached us and ‘milked’ our feature material..all week in the run up to the programme [etc.].
1992 N.Y. Times 7 Apr. b12/6 He was leery of programs that would milk him for his connections but exclude him from the other vital areas of coaching.
b. intransitive. to milk dry: to drain completely of resources; to exploit exhaustively. Cf. sense 5a.
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1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 102/2 The great caldron that had been milked dry of its stores in the morning, now discharging its aqueous contents of a much-attenuated bouillon.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xv. 258 After ten days the receipts began to drop... ‘About milked dry,’ said Burlingham at the late supper.
1912 J. Masefield Dauber iii. 25 They bleed him to the last half-crown for rent And this and that have almost milked him dry.
1985 T. Ali Nehrus & Gandhis v. 239 India had been milked dry during the ‘Great War’.
1993 Amer. Heritage Nov. 63/2 Thomason's next project was a biography of Jeb Stuart. He was at his best writing about military men, and he had milked the First World War dry.
c. transitive. Originally U.S. Stock Market slang. to milk the market (also street) [i.e. Wall Street] : to hold stock so well in hand as to make it fluctuate at will, and so yield any financial result desired. In extended use: to exploit opportunistically and to maximum advantage or effect.
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1870 J. K. Medbery Men & Myst. Wall St. 336 To use the slang of the financial quarter, they ‘milk the street’.
1883 Harper's Mag. May 820/2 The..process of ‘milking the market’.
1900 Polit. Sci. Q. 15 185 When profit cannot be secured by making goods and selling them, it may often be gained by ‘milking’ the market for the stock.
1991 Shakespeare Q. 42 139 Intertextuality between ballads—if that is not too grand a term for how balladers milked the market—is well documented.
†6. transitive. To entice; to draw on by wiles. Obsolete.
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the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)] > subtly or deceptively
bicharrec1175
inveigle1549
stale1557
entrap1566
to link in1592
solicit1592
beguile1594
insinuate1594
cozen1599
milka1625
trick1707
veigle1745
a1625 J. Fletcher Rule a Wife (1640) ii. 22 All this is but in seeming To milke the lover on.
7. transitive. To elicit (something), to draw out; to extract or extort (money, advantage, information, etc.) from a person, business, situation, etc. Also: to drain away, out of from a person.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > elicit or call forth
movea1398
drawa1400
provoke?a1425
askc1450
to draw out1525
to stir up1526
allure?1532
suscitate1532
to call out1539
to draw fortha1569
draw1581
attract1593
raise1598
force1602
fetch1622
milka1628
invite1650
summon1679
elicit1822
to work up?1833
educe1840
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > as if by milking or siphoning
milka1628
siphon1940
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > extract gas or liquid
exhaust1540
draina1552
to draw off1594
uncask1594
spring1597
carry1602
tap1602
milka1628
to carry off1677
evacuate1719
drafta1875
aspirate1880
bleed1889
a1628 J. Preston New Covenant (1629) xiv. 231 To milke consolation out of the promises.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea Ep. Ded. 6 Hee never made any farther use of them than to milk away the Subjects monie under pretence of building Ships.
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 176 If ever you had but the sweetness of any one promise in it [sc. the water of life] milked out unto you.
1831 J. W. Carlyle Early Lett. (1889) 189 I took nothing in hand the whole day but milking news from her (a rather rural metaphor), which she with unabating copiousness supplied.
1891 C. E. Norton tr. Dante Divine Comedy II. xxiv. 152 Here it is not forbidden to name each other, since our semblance is so milked away by the diet.
1900 R. Kipling in Daily Mail 24 Apr. 4/4 Dysentery that milks the heart out of a man.
1981 B. Ashley Dodgem viii. 165 He kept an eye open for Rose, ready to smile at her, to milk a smile back if he could.
1985 C. McCullough Creed for Third Millennium ix. 210 They don't care about him, all they care about is what they can milk out of him.
1991 Economist 13 July 90/1 Hanson is more short-termist than is Britain's chemical giant. It milks cash from the mature businesses it buys.
†8. transitive. Horse Racing slang. To keep (a horse) a favourite at short odds for a race that it cannot win, while at the same time betting against it. Obsolete.
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1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock ix. 162 Sam..also..went to Doncaster to ride the same colt for the St. Leger, for which he was ‘milked’ and scratched.
1862 Times 2 Jan. 8/6 By such tricks as ‘milking’—i.e. by keeping a horse a favourite at short odds for a race in which he has no chance whatever, only to lay against him [etc.].
1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Milk... When a horse is entered for a race which his owner does not intend him to win, and bets against him, the animal is said to be ‘milked’.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 76/1 Milked, owner of a race horse who is not trying to win, and who wagers on another horse in the race.]
†9. transitive. slang. To tap (a telephone or telegraph wire, etc.); to intercept (a telegram, telephone message, etc.). Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (transitive)] > listen to > eavesdrop > on telephone
to tap an electric wire1869
milk1878
monitor1939
1878 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone iii. 108 The..simplicity of the means by which a wire could be milked..struck the whole of the party.
1899 Tit-Bits 3 June 185/1 ‘Milking’ telegrams..is a fairly common practice.
10. transitive. Originally in the performing arts: to exploit (a scene, situation, line, etc.) for fullest effect; to elicit a favourable or appreciative reaction from (an audience) and contrive to prolong it as long as possible. Also in extended use.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > act [verb (transitive)] > act in specific manner
misact1609
tragedize1755
overact1760
overplay1767
to walk through ——1824
underact1847
to play down to ——1880
routine1897
underplay1897
milk1921
ham1933
hoke1935
to camp it up1957
to play for laughs (also a laugh)1963
undercharacterize1970
1921 Variety 16 Dec. 10 The ones that contained real meat were milked capably by the cast.
1939 J. C. Hixson & I. Colodny Word Ways xvi. 142 To over-play an audience for applause is called milking the audience.
1950 A. Huxley Let. 15 Nov. (1969) 631 My feeling about the story is that you have got hold of something big, but have not yet milked it for all it is worth.
1962 Times 15 May 13/3 Too many of the other acts, however, have no idea how to..milk a laugh.
1971 M. Babson Cover-up Story ix. 107 They milked the applause for all it was worth, then Bart held up his hand again.
1992 Daily Express 8 June 46/2 When Korda beat his opponent in a spectacular point he played the showman, milking the 16,000 crowd for every last drop of applause.
III. Other extended senses.
11. transitive. To extract sap, venom, etc., from (a plant, animal, etc.).
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > a juice, virus, etc.
milk1559
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 380 Milk is gathered of Esula & Selandin, cuttinge the highest bowes, and..pressing (milking [L. emulgendo] or sliping) them one by one.
1746 in Acts & Resolves Mass. Bay (1878) III. 307 Any liberty obtained..from any Indian or Indians, for cutting off any timber, wood, hay, milking pine-trees,..shall not be any bar to said guardians in their said action or actions.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxviii. 112 Strainer of ooze impure milk'd from a watery fen.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 31 Jan. 2/1 A large black snake..not milked for, say, eight days, will give as much as four and a half grains of liquid poison.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Apr. 191/3 They [sc. snakes] can be milked of their venom to make antivenene.
1990 New Scientist 28 July (inside back cover) (advt.) Scientists have discovered a new way of producing an anti-clotting agent for use during surgery—simply by milking the ordinary leech.
12. transitive. coarse slang. To extract semen from (a penis, a man) by manual stimulation; to masturbate.Cf. quot. a1616 at sense 1b.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > engage in other types of sexual activity or intercourse [verb (transitive)] > stimulate genitals of (a person) > cause to have orgasm by
frig1598
milk1616
to toss off1879
wank1905
to pull off1909
to bring off1916
to jerk off1969
masturbate1974
1616 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. iii. 641 in Wks. I Shee must milke his Epididimis.
1707 E. Ward London Terræ-filius No. 2. 20 That Airy Lass..was..brought from the Innocent Squeezing of Cows Dugs, to the Wicked Milking of Town Bulls.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 108 May teach her how to Sleep all Night, and take a great deal more Delight, to Milk the Cows than thee.
1824 Lancet 22 May 226/3 He draws out the penis with considerable force; and thus, to express it in the clearest way, milks himself.—(a loud laugh).
1969 J. Michie tr. Catullus Poems lviii. 91 My Lesbia..Now hangs about crossroads and alleyways Milking the cocks of mighty Remus' sons.
1981 T. C. Boyle Water Music (1983) i. 24 They began pumping at themselves, milking their rods with a whack and thwap, their faces strained and distant.
13. transitive. Proverbial phrase to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram) and variants [ultimately after classical Latin mulgeat hircos (Virgil Eclogues 3. 91); entering the proverb tradition via Erasmus Adagia 132A] : to engage in an enterprise doomed to failure.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)] > attempt the impossible
to hunt for or catch a hare with a tabor1399
gnaw a file1484
to take hares with foxes1577
to seek a hare in a hen's nest1599
to wash a Negro (white)1611
to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616
to lick a file1647
to set the tortoise to catch the hare1803
to look for a needle in a haystack1855
to bite file1880
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > be of no avail [verb (intransitive)] > expend effort in vain
to lose or spill one's whilec1175
to speak to the windc1330
tinec1330
to beat the windc1375
lose?a1513
to boil, roast, or wash a stonea1529
to lose (one's) oil1548
to plough the sand (also sands)a1565
to wash an ass's head (or ears)1581
to wash an Ethiop, a blackamoor (white)1581
to wash a wall of loam, a brick or tilea1600
to milk the bull (also he-goat, ram)1616
to bark against (or at) the moona1641
dead horse1640
to cast stones against the wind1657
dry-ditcha1670
baffle1860
to go, run or rush (a)round in circles1933
1616 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching (new ed.) in Wks. (1620) I. 586 That which is said in the prouerb, where one doth milke a goate, another holds vnder a siue.
1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 295 To milke a bull or hope in vaine.
a1656 J. Hales Tracts (1677) ii. 40 That fell out which is in the common proverb, sc. Whilst the one milks the Ram, the other holds under the Sieve.
1836 Tennyson in Mem. (1897) I. 158 To write for people with prefixes to their names is to milk he-goats; there is neither honour nor profit.
1929 N. K. Smith tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason 97 It [sc. an absurd question] not only brings shame on the propounder of the question, but may betray an incautious listener into absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the ludicrous spectacle of one man milking a he-goat and the other holding a sieve underneath.
1986 A. Jefferson & D. Robey Mod. Lit. Theory (ed. 2) v. 143 A last desperate move to find a coherent role for literary and critical theory—‘milking the bull’, as one reviewer..put it.
14.
a. transitive. To manipulate in the manner of a teat during hand-milking.
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the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (transitive)] > touch or manipulate repetitively
milk1647
knead1954
1647 H. More Philos. Poems 36* He..with his fingers milked evermore The hanging frienge.
1905 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 July 16 The other loops of distended bowels may then be ‘milked’ between the rubber-covered fingers.
1984 J. Frame Angel at my Table (1987) iv. 35 Every day, all day, we picked raspberries as we'd been taught, crouched, milking them gently from their stalks.
1996 C. Stormer Reflexology vii. 61 (caption) Milking the little toes.
b. transitive. Cards. To shuffle (cards) by simultaneously taking one card from the bottom of the deck and one from the top. Also: to shuffle or deal dishonestly; esp. in to milk the pack.
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1843 J. H. Greene Exposure of Gambling 179 To prevent splitting, the deal will ‘milk’ the cards; that is, draw at the very same time one card from the top and one card from the bottom, bringing both..together, and laying them into a heap, until the whole pack has been run through in this manner.
1938 H. Asbury Sucker's Progress i. ii. 35 Methods of cheating at Poker..to stack and milk the pack, to deal from the bottom, and to cold deck the sucker.
1987 T. L. Clark Dict. Gambling & Gaming 129/2 Milk the pack, in poker, to deal certain cards from the deck dishonestly.
†15. transitive. To instil with the mother's milk. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise iv. i. 39 You..milk'd slow Arts Of Womanish tameness in my Infant Mouth.

Compounds

† milk-purse adj. Obsolete rare given to extracting money fraudulently.
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1658 J. Jones tr. Ovid Invective against Ibis 41 Milk-purse Lawyers (so Erasmus termes them) are far more tolerable then Cut~purse tyrants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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