Part 7047

<h1>Milk-livered</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Milk"-liv`ered</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>White-livered; cowardly; timorous.</def>

<h1>Milkmaid</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Milk"maid`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.</def>

<h1>Milkman</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Milk"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Milkmen</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.</def>

<h1>Milksop</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Milk"sop`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>To wed a <b>milksop</b> or a coward ape. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Milk vetch</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Milk" vetch`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A leguminous herb (<spn>Astragalus glycyphyllos</spn>) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.</def>

<note>&hand; The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus <spn>Astragalus</spn>, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere.</note>

<h1>Milkweed</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Milk"weed`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Any plant of the genera <i>Asclepias</i> and <i>Acerates</i>, 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.</def>

<h1>Milkwort</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Milk"wort`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of plants (<spn>Polygala</spn>) of many species. The common European <spn>P. vulgaris</spn> was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.</def>

<note>&hand; The species of <spn>Campanula</spn>, or bellflower, are sometimes called <i>milkwort</i>, from their juice.</note>

<h1>Milky</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Milk"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Consisting of, or containing, milk.</def>

<blockquote>Pails high foaming with a <b>milky</b> flood. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; <as>as, the water is <ex>milky</ex>. "<ex>Milky</ex> juice."</as></def>

<i>Arbuthnot.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Yielding milk.</def> "<i>Milky</i> mothers."

<i>Roscommon.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Mild; tame; spiritless.</def>

<blockquote>Has friendship such a faint and <b>milky</b> heart? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Milky Way</col>. <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Galaxy</er>, 1.</cd></cs>