Milk"ful (?), a. Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] "Milkful
vales." Sylvester.
Milk"i*ly (?), adv. In a milky manner.
Milk"i*ness, n. State or quality of being milky.
Milk"-liv`ered (?), a. White- livered; cowardly; timorous.
Milk"maid` (?), n. A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
Milk"man (?), n.; pl. Milkmen (&?;). A man who sells milk or delivers
it to customers.
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` (?). (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.
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.
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.
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.