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 love the babe that milks me.

Shak.

2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.

3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale.

They [ the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

London Spectator.

To milk the street , to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [ Cant] -- To milk a telegram , to use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [ Cant]

Milk Milk intransitive verb To draw or to yield milk.

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.

Milk sickness Milk sickness (Veter.) A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted water.

Milk vetch Milk" vetch` (Botany) A leguminous herb ( Astragalus glycyphyllos ) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.

» The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus , of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere.

Milk-livered Milk"-liv`ered adjective White- livered; cowardly; timorous.

Milken Milk"en adjective Consisting of milk. [ Obsolete]

Milker Milk"er noun 1. One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.

2. A cow or other animal that gives milk.

Milkful Milk"ful adjective Full of milk; abounding with food. [ R.] " Milkful vales." Sylvester.

Milkily Milk"i·ly adverb In a milky manner.

Milkiness Milk"i·ness noun State or quality of being milky.

Milkmaid Milk"maid` noun A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.

Milkman Milk"man noun ; plural Milkmen A man who sells milk or delivers it to customers.

Milksop Milk"sop` noun A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak.

To wed a milksop or a coward ape.

Chaucer.

Milkweed Milk"weed` noun (Botany) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates , abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.

Milkwort Milk"wort` noun (Botany) A genus of plants ( Polygala ) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

» The species of Campanula , or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort , from their juice.

Milky Milk"y adjective 1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.

Pails high foaming with a milky flood.

Pope.

2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky . " Milky juice." Arbuthnot.

3. Yielding milk. " Milky mothers." Roscommon.

4. Mild; tame; spiritless.

Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?

Shak.

Milky Way . (Astron.) See Galaxy , 1.

Mill Mill (mĭl) noun [ Latin mille a thousand. Confer Mile .] A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

Mill Mill noun [ Middle English mille , melle , mulle , milne , Anglo-Saxon myln , mylen ; akin to Dutch molen , German mühle , Old High German mulī , mulīn , Icelandic mylna ; all probably from Latin molina , from mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan , German mahlen , and to English meal . √108. See Meal flour, and confer Moline .]

1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or indented surfaces; as, a grist mill , a coffee mill ; a bone mill .

2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill ; a cane mill .

3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill .

4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a saw mill ; a stamping mill , etc.

5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill ; a powder mill ; a rolling mill .

6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.

8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling .

9. A pugilistic encounter. [ Cant] R. D. Blackmore.

Edge mill , Flint mill , etc. See under Edge , Flint , etc. -- Mill bar (Iron Works) , a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Mill cinder , slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head , the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick , a pick for dressing millstones. -- Mill pond , a pond that supplies the water for a mill. -- Mill race , the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel. -- Mill tail , the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows. -- Mill tooth , a grinder or molar tooth. - - Mill wheel , the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. -- Roller mill , a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers. -- Stamp mill (Mining) , a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps. -- To go through the mill , to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.

Mill Mill (mĭl) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Milled (mĭld); present participle & verbal noun Milling .] [ See Mill , noun , and confer Muller .]

1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

3. To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.

4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

5. To beat with the fists. [ Cant] Thackeray.

6. To roll into bars, as steel.

To mill chocolate , to make it frothy, as by churning.

Mill Mill intransitive verb (Zoology) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

Mill Mill intransitive verb 1. To undergo hulling, as maize.

2. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain.

The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius.

Kipling.

3. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.

4. To take part in a mill; to box. [ Cant]

Mill Mill noun 1. Short for Treadmill .

2. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.

Mill Mill transitive verb 1. (Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

Mill-cake Mill"-cake` noun The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

Mill-sixpence Mill"-sixpence noun A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

Millboard Mill"board` noun A kind of stout pasteboard.

Milldam Mill"dam` noun A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

Milled Milled adjective Having been subjected to some process of milling.

Milled cloth , cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Milled lead , lead rolled into sheets.

Millefiore glass Mil`le·fi·o"re glass` [ Italian mille thousand + fiore flower.] Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.

Millenarian Mil`le·na"ri·an adjective [ See Millenary .] Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.

Millenarian Mil`le·na"ri·an noun One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.

Millenarianism, Millenarism Mil`le·na"ri·an·ism, Mil"le·na·rism noun The doctrine of Millenarians.

Millenary Mil"le·na·ry adjective [ Latin millenarius , from milleni a thousand each, from mille a thousand: confer French millénaire . See Mile .] Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

Millenary Mil"le·na·ry noun The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian . "During that millenary ." Hare.

Millennial Mil·len"ni·al adjective Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.

Millennialist Mil·len"ni·al·ist noun One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.

Millennianism, Millenniarism Mil·len"ni·an·ism, Mil·len"ni·a·rism noun Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.

Millennist Mil"len·nist (mĭl"lĕn*nĭst) noun One who believes in the millennium. [ Obsolete] Johnson.

Millennium Mil·len"ni·um (mĭl*lĕn"nĭ*ŭm) noun [ Late Latin , from Latin mille a thousand + annus a year. See Mile , and Annual .] A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

Milleped Mil"le·ped (mĭl"le*pĕdĭ) noun [ Latin millepeda ; mille a thousand + pes , pedis , foot: confer French mille-pieds .] (Zoology) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [ Written also millipede and milliped .]

Millepora Mil·le·po"ra (mĭl*le*pō"rȧ) noun [ New Latin ] (Zoology) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

Millepore Mil"le·pore (mĭl"le*pōr) noun [ Latin mille thousand + porus pore: confer French millépore .] (Zoology) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia .

Milleporite Mil"le·po·rite noun (Paleon.) A fossil millepore.

Miller Mill"er (mĭl"ẽr) noun 1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.

2. A milling machine.

3. (Zoology) (a) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller . (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. [ Prov. Eng.]

Miller's thumb . (Zoology) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus ), as the European species ( U. gobio ), and the American ( U. gracilis ); -- called also bullhead . (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit. [ Prov. Eng.]

Millerite Mil"ler·ite noun A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.

Millerite Mil"ler·ite noun [ From W. H. Miller , of Cambridge, Eng.] (Min.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites .

Millesimal Mil·les"i·mal adjective [ Latin millesimus , from mille a thousand.] Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.

Millet Mil"let noun [ French, dim. of mil , Latin milium ; akin to Greek ..., Anglo-Saxon mil .] (Botany) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum , and Setaria Italica .

» Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense . -- Egyptian or East Indian , millet is Penicillaria spicata . -- Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare . (See under Indian .) -- Italian millet is Setaria Italica , a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass . -- Texas millet is Panicum Texanum . -- Wild millet , or Millet grass , is Milium effusum , a tail grass growing in woods.

Milli- Mil"li- [ From Latin mille a thousand.] (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A prefix denoting a thousandth part of ; as, milli meter, milli gram, milli ampère.

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