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Definition of Milk

1. Noun. A white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings.

2. Verb. Take milk from female mammals. "Cows need to be milked every morning"

3. Noun. Produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young.

4. Verb. Exploit as much as possible. "They milk him of all his money"; "I am milking this for all it's worth"

5. Noun. A river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River.

6. Verb. Add milk to. "Milk the tea"

7. Noun. Any of several nutritive milklike liquids.

Definition of Milk

1. 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.

2. v. t. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.

3. v. i. To draw or to yield milk.

4. v. i. To draw or to yield milk.

Definition of Milk

1. Noun. A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. ¹

2. Noun. A white (or whitish) colored liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as soy beans, coconuts, almonds, rice, oats. Also called ''non-dairy milk''. ¹

3. Noun. (countable informal) An individual serving of milk. ¹

4. Noun. (uncountable slang) semen ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To express any liquid (from any creature). ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To talk or write at length about (a particular point). ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To take advantage of (a situation). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Milk

1. to draw milk (a whitish, nutritious liquid) from the udder of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Milk

1. 1. 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. A kind of juice or sap, usually white in colour, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex. 3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water. 4. The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. Condensed milk. See Condense, Milk crust, 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. Origin: AS. Meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin to OFries. Meloc, D. Melk, G. Milch, OHG. Miluh, Icel. Mjok, Sw. Mjolk, Dan. Melk, Goth. Miluks, G. Melken to milk, OHG. Melchan, Lith. Milszti, L. Mulgere, Gr. . Cf. Milch, Emulsion, Milt soft roe of fishes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Milk

militerisation militerisations militia militialike militiaman militiamen militias militiate militiawoman militiawomen

militician militicians militsia militsias milium milk-alkali syndrome milk-brother milk-brothers milk-cap milk-caps

milk-ejection reflex milk-house milk-livered milk-ring test milk-sibling milk-siblings milk-sister milk-sisters milk-teeth

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