slovo | definícia |
milk (mass) | milk
- mlieko, materské mlieko, telové mlieko, dojiť, podojiť |
milk (encz) | milk,dojit v: Zdeněk Brož |
milk (encz) | milk,mléčný adj: also milky |
milk (encz) | milk,mléko |
Milk (gcide) | Milk \Milk\ (m[i^]lk), n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin
to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel.
mj[=o]lk, Sw. mj["o]lk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to
milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr.
'ame`lgein. [root]107. Cf. Milch, Emulsion, Milt soft
roe of fishes.]
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1. (Physiol.) 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." --Chaucer.
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2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color,
found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
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3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of
almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and
water.
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4. (Zool.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
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Condensed milk. See under Condense, v. t.
Milk crust (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face
and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema.
Milk fever.
(a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first
lactation. It is usually transitory.
(b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle;
also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after
calving.
Milk glass, glass having a milky appearance.
Milk knot (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a
nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and
congestion of the mammary glands.
Milk leg (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in
puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and
characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an
accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular
tissue.
Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese.
[Obs.] --Bailey.
Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2.
Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which
are shed and replaced by the premolars.
Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate,
produced by macerating quicklime in water.
Milk parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum
palustre}) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice.
Milk pea (Bot.), a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and,
usually, twining plants.
Milk sickness (Med.), See milk sickness in the
vocabulary.
Milk snake (Zool.), a harmless American snake ({Ophibolus
triangulus}, or Ophibolus eximius). It is variously
marked with white, gray, and red. Called also {milk
adder}, chicken snake, house snake, etc.
Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See Lactose, and {Sugar of
milk} (below).
Milk thistle (Bot.), an esculent European thistle ({Silybum
marianum}), having the veins of its leaves of a milky
whiteness.
Milk thrush. (Med.) See Thrush.
Milk tooth (Anat.), one of the temporary first set of teeth
in young mammals; in man there are twenty.
Milk tree (Bot.), a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow
tree of South America (Brosimum Galactodendron), and the
Euphorbia balsamifera of the Canaries, the milk of both
of which is wholesome food.
Milk vessel (Bot.), a special cell in the inner bark of a
plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is
contained. See Latex.
Rock milk. See Agaric mineral, under Agaric.
Sugar of milk. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard
white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by
evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and
powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an
article of diet. See Lactose.
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Milk (gcide) | Milk \Milk\, v. i.
1. To draw or to yield milk.
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2. (Elec.) To give off small gas bubbles during the final
part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage
battery.
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Milk (gcide) | Milk \Milk\ (m[i^]lk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milked (m[i^]lkt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Milking.]
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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.
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I have given suck, and know
How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.
--Shak.
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2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk;
as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
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3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to
yield profit or advantage; to plunder. --Tyndale.
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They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as
regularly as a dairyman does his stock. --London
Spectator.
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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]
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milk (wn) | milk
n 1: a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as
food by human beings
2: produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding
their young
3: a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and
flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
[syn: Milk, Milk River]
4: any of several nutritive milklike liquids
v 1: take milk from female mammals; "Cows need to be milked
every morning"
2: exploit as much as possible; "I am milking this for all it's
worth"
3: add milk to; "milk the tea" |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
milk (mass) | milk
- mlieko, materské mlieko, telové mlieko, dojiť, podojiť |
milkwhite (mass) | milk-white
- mliečne biely |
buttermilk (encz) | buttermilk,podmáslí n: Zdeněk Brož |
certified milk (encz) | certified milk,pasterizované mléko Jiří Šmoldas |
chocolate milk (encz) | chocolate milk,čoko mléko n: sladychocolate milk,čokoládové mléko n: slady |
coconut milk (encz) | coconut milk, n: |
common milkwort (encz) | common milkwort, n: |
condensed milk (encz) | condensed milk,kondenzované mléko |
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