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Look up: Milk

  1. Milk
    Milk is a secretion of modified skin glands of female mammals.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/B6

  2. milk
    [n] - a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River 2. [n] - any of several nutritive milklike liquids 3. [n] - a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings 4. [n] - produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young 5. [v] - exploit as much as possible 6. [v] - add milk to 7. [v] - take milk from female mammals
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Milk
    Opaque white liquid secreted by female mammals for feeding young.
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  4. Milk
    Milk intransitive verb 1. To draw or to yield milk. 2. (Electricity) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage battery.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/66

  5. Milk
    Milk (mĭlk) noun [ Anglo-Saxon meoluc , meoloc , meolc , milc ; akin to OFries. meloc , Dutch melk , German milch , Old High German miluh , Icelandic mjōlk , Swedish mjölk , Danish melk , Goth. miluks , German melken to milk, Old High German melchan , Lithuanian milszti , L …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/66

  6. Milk
    Milk (mĭlk) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Milked (mĭlkt); present participle & verbal noun Milking .] 1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. " Milking the kine." Gay. « I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/66

  7. Milk
    Milk intransitive verb To draw or to yield milk.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/66

  8. milk
    1. <physiology> A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. "White as morne milk." ... 2. <botany> A kind of juice or sap, usually white in colour, found in certain plant …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?m

  9. milk
    noun produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Milk
    Milk River noun a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  11. Milk
    `Milk` is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals (including monotremes). Mammary glands are highly specialized sweat glands. The female ability to produce milk is one of the defining characteristics of mammals. It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborns before they are able to digest other types of food. The early lactation milk is known as colostrum, and carries the mother's antibodies to the baby. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk

  12. Milk
    `Milk` is an opaque white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals (including monotremes). Mammary glands are highly specialized sweat glands. The female ability to produce milk is one of the defining characteristics of mammals. It provides the primary source of nutrition for newborns before they are able to digest other types of food. The early lactation milk is known as colostrum, and carries the mother's antibodies to the baby. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk

  13. milk
    (milk) a nutrient fluid produced by the mammary gland of many animals for nourishment of young mammals. a liquid (emulsion or suspension) resembling the secretion of the mammary gland. adj., lac´tic, mil´ky., adj.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  14. Milk
    • (n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. • (v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. • (n.)...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  15. milk
    liquid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young for a period beginning immediately after birth. The milk of ... [38 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/91

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8 January 2009

This day in history:
Rationing began on 8 January 1940. Each person was allowed a specific mount of basic foods. In July 1940 a complete ban was put on the making or selling of iced cakes, and in September the manufacture of `candied peel` or `crystallised cherries` meant the death knell for the traditional wedding cake. On 1st December 1941 the Ministry of Food introduced the points rationing scheme for items such as canned meat, fish and vegetables at first. Everyone was given 16 points a month, later raised to twenty, to spend as wished at any shop that had the items wanted. read more

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