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[ mil-kee ] / ˈmɪl ki / SEE SYNONYMS FOR milky ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, milk·i·er, milk·i·est.of or like milk, especially in appearance or consistency. white or whitish in color. giving a good supply of milk. meek, tame, timid, or spiritless. Origin of milkyMiddle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at milk, -y1 OTHER WORDS FROM milkymilk·i·ly, adverbmilk·i·ness, nounWords nearby milkymilkweed butterfly, milkweed family, milk-white, milkwood, milkwort, milky, milky disease, Milky Way, mill, millable, millage Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for milkyMy partner Brandon and I awake at the crack of dawn for a canoe ride on the milky blue glacial waters of Lake Louise. Our Trip to The Climate War's Ground Zero|Darren Aronofsky|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST New research shows early galaxies were much bigger—some 10 times the mass of the Milky Way—than astronomers expected. Some of the First Galaxies Were Big Babies|Matthew R. Francis|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Astronomers recently placed the Milky Way on the fringe of a huge supercluster. Laniakea: The Milky Way’s Place in the Heavens|Matthew R. Francis|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST For example, based on the ages of stars, we know the Milky Way is about 13.2 billion years old. The Care and Feeding of Baby Giant Galaxies|Matthew R. Francis|May 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Most stars in the Milky Way have humdrum lives, tracing slow predictable orbits around the galactic center. The Hypervelocity Star That’s Being Booted from the Galaxy|Matthew R. Francis|May 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST Cut off the cob one dozen ears of green corn whilst in the milky state. The National Cook Book, 9th ed.|Hannah Mary Peterson So the neck and shoulders melted into the snow-white of the body, a restless glimmering ebbing into a milky way. The Cassowary|Stanley Waterloo Flowers with very thick or milky stems should be slit up about half an inch, and woody stems are best peeled for an inch or two. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes|Dorothy Canfield Fisher The milky juice of the stems and leaves is very acrid, and has been used in some countries for raising blisters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3|Various He considered that the Milky Way is a great star cluster, whose form may be conjectured from numerous star-gaugings. History of Astronomy|George Forbes
British Dictionary definitions for milky
adjective milkier or milkiestresembling milk, esp in colour or cloudiness of or containing milk spiritless or spineless Judaism another word for milchik Derived forms of milkymilkily, adverbmilkiness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to milkypearly, opaque, frosted, opalescent, alabaster, clouded, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, milk-white, opaline, whitish |