Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MILK'EN, a.

Consisting of milk. [Not used.] Temple.

MILK'ER, n.

One that milks.

MILK'-FE-VER, n.

A fever which sometimes accompanies the first secretion of milk in females after childbirth.

MILK'-HEDGE, n.

A shrub growing on the Coromandel coast, containing a milky juice.

MILK'I-NESS, n.

Qualities like those of milk; softness. Dryden.

MILK'ING, ppr.

Drawing milk from the breasts of an animal by the hand.

MILK'-LIV-ER-ED, a.

Cowardly; timorous. Shak.

MILK'MAID, n.

A woman that milks or is employed in the dairy.

MILK'MAN, n.

A man that sells milk or carries milk to market.

MILK'PAIL, n.

A pail which receives the milk drawn from cows.

MILK'PAN, n.

A pan in which milk is set.

MILK'POR-RIDGE, or MILK'POT-TAGE, n.

A species of food composed of milk or milk and water, boiled with meal or flour. Locke.

MILK'SCORE, n.

An account of milk sold or purchased in small quantities, scored or marked. Addison.

MILK'SOP, n.

A soft, effeminate, feeble-minded man. Addison. Prior.

MILK'-THIS-TLE, n.

A plant of the genus Carduus, Carduus Marianus.

MILK'TOOTH, n.

The fore tooth of a foal, which is cast within two or three years. Far. Dict.

MILK-TRE'FOIL, n.

A plant, said to be a Cytisus. Johnson.

MILK'-VETCH, n.

A plant of the genus Astragalus.

MILK'WEED, n.

A plant, the Asclepias Syriaca.

MILK'WIHTE, a.

White as milk. Dryden.

MILK'WOM-AN, n.

A woman that sells milk. Arbuthnot.

MILK'-WORT, n.

A plant of the genus Euphorbia; spurge.

MILK'Y, a.

1. Made of milk.
2. Resembling milk; as, milky sap or juice. Pope.
3. Yielding milk; as, milky mothers. Roscommon.
4. Soft; mild; gentle; timorous; as, a milky heart. Shak.

MILK'Y-WAY, n.

The galaxy; broad luminous path or circle in the heavens, supposed to be the blended light of innumerable fixed stars, which are not distinguishable with ordinary telescopes. Harris.

MILL, n.¹ [L. mille, a thousand.]

A money of account of the United States, value the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.