Milkmaid
(Milk"maid`) n. A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
Milkman
(Milk"man) n.; pl. Milkmen A man who sells milk or delivers it to customers.
Milksop
(Milk"sop`) n. A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.
Shak.
To wed a milksop or a coward ape.
Chaucer. Milk vetch
(Milk" vetch`) (Bot.) 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.
Milkweed
(Milk"weed`) n. (Bot.) 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`) n. (Bot.) 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) a.
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) n. [L. mille a thousand. Cf. 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), n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. mühle, OHG.
muli, mulin, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin
to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. &radic108. See Meal flour, and cf.
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 gristmill, 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.
