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.), a
peculiar malignant disease, occurring in some parts of the Western
United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows),
and persons who make use of 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 drinking water. -- Milk snake (Zoöl.), a
harmless American snake (Ophibolus triangulus, or O. 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 (mlk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milked (mlkt); p. pr. & vb. n.
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, v. i. To draw or to yield milk.