has particulars: sour milk, pasteurized milk, cows' milk, yak's milk, goats' milk, acidophilus milk, raw milk, scalded milk, homogenized milk, certified milk, dried milk, dry milk, milk powder, powdered milk, evaporated milk, condensed milk, skim milk, skimmed milk, semi-skimmed milk, whole milk, low-fat milk, buttermilk, chocolate milk

Derived forms verb milk₁, verb milk₃, adjective milky₁

milk(n = noun.body) Array - produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young; Array

is a kind of

bodily fluid

body fluid

humor

humour

liquid body substance

has particulars: mother's milk, colostrum, foremilk

Derived forms verb milk₁, verb milk₃

milk(n = noun.object) milk river - a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River; Array

is a part of montana, mt, treasure state

is a kind of river

milk(n = noun.food) Array - any of several nutritive milklike liquids; Array

is a kind of

food product

foodstuff

has particulars: coconut milk, coconut water, coconut cream, coconut milk, soya milk, soybean milk, soymilk, formula

Derived form verb milk₃

Verb Milk has 3 senses

milk(v = verb.change) Array - take milk from female mammals; "Cows need to be milked every morning"

is one way to

draw

take out

Derived forms noun milk₂, noun milk₁

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

milk(v = verb.consumption) Array - exploit as much as possible; "I am milking this for all it's worth"

is one way to

exploit

tap

Sample sentence:
They Milk him of all his money

milk(v = verb.change) Array - add milk to; "milk the tea"

is one way to

add

Derived forms noun milk₂, noun milk₁, noun milk₄

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Milk, n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel. mj, Sw. mjölk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr. 'ame`lgein. Milch, Emulsion, Milt soft roe of fishes.].

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. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex. [1913 Webster]

An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water. [1913 Webster]

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. [1913 Webster]

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 (Zoöl.), 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.

Milk, v. t.

To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. Gay. [1913 Webster]
"I have given suck, and know
How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me." [1913 Webster]

To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows. [1913 Webster]

To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale. [1913 Webster]
"They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock." [1913 Webster]

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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage battery. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Milk, n. & v.
--n.
1 an opaque white fluid secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young.
2 the milk of cows, goats, or sheep as food.
3 the milklike juice of plants, e.g. in the coconut.
4 a milklike preparation of herbs, drugs, etc.
--v.tr.
1 draw milk from (a cow, ewe, goat, etc.).
2 a exploit (a person) esp. financially. b get all possible advantage from (a situation).
3 extract sap, venom, etc. from.
4 sl. tap (telegraph or telephone wires etc.).

Idiom

cry over spilt milk lament an irremediable loss or error. in milk secreting milk. milk and honey abundant means of prosperity. milk and water a feeble or insipid or mawkish discourse or sentiment. milk bar a snack bar selling milk drinks and other refreshments. milk chocolate chocolate for eating, made with milk. milk float Brit. a small usu. electric vehicle used in delivering milk. milk-leg a painful swelling, esp. of the legs, after childbirth. milk-loaf a loaf of bread made with milk. milk of human kindness kindness regarded as natural to humanity. Milk of Magnesia Brit. propr. a white suspension of magnesium hydroxide usu. in water as an antacid or laxative. milk of sulphur the amorphous powder of sulphur formed by precipitation. milk-powder milk dehydrated by evaporation. milk pudding a pudding of rice, sago, tapioca, etc., baked with milk in a dish. milk round
1 a fixed route on which milk is delivered regularly.
2 a regular trip or tour involving calls at several places. milk run a routine expedition or service journey. milk shake a drink of milk, flavouring, etc., mixed by shaking or whisking. milk sugar lactose. milk tooth a temporary tooth in young mammals. milk-vetch any leguminous yellow-flowered plant of the genus Astragalus. milk-white white like milk.

Derivative

milker n.

Etymology

OE milc, milcian f. Gmc

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THESAURUS

Milk
abridge, abuse, alabaster, bed, bed down, bereave, beverage, bleed, bleed white, blood, break, bridle, broach, brush, butter, buttermilk, certified milk, chalk, cheese, chyle, colostrum, condensed milk, cream, curry, currycomb, curtail, cut off, dairy products, decant, declaim, denude, deplume, deprive, deprive of, despoil, discharge, disentitle, displume, divest, draft, draft off, drain, draw, draw from, draw off, draw out, drench, drink, driven snow, dry, ease one of, elicit, empty, evince, evoke, exact, exhaust, exploit, extort, extract, feed, flay, fleece, flour, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, foam, fodder, gentle, ghee, gleet, grimace, groom, half-and-half, ham, ham it up, handle, harness, heavy cream, hitch, humor, hydraulics, hydrogeology, ichor, ill-use, impose upon, impoverish, ivory, juice, lachryma, lactation, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, lactiferous, latex, let, let blood, let out, leukorrhea, light cream, lighten one of, lily, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, litter, lymph, maggot, make use of, manage, manipulate, margarine, matter, milch, milky, mine, misuse, mucor, mucus, mug, mulct, nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine, out-herod Herod, overact, overdramatize, paper, pearl, peccant humor, phlebotomize, phlegm, pick clean, pipette, play on, pluck, presume upon, pump, pump out, purulence, pus, rant, raw milk, rheum, roar, rook, rub down, saddle, saliva, sanies, sap, semiliquid, serous fluid, serum, shear, sheet, silver, siphon off, skim milk, skin, snot, snow, sour cream, spout, stick, strip, strip bare, stroke, suck, suck dry, suck out, suppuration, swan, sweat, take advantage of, take away from, take from, tame, tap, tear, teardrop, tend, the whites, throw away, train, underact, urine, use, use ill, venesect, water, whey, whipping cream, withdraw, work on, work upon, wring, yogurt, yoke

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ROGET THESAURUS

Milk

Moderation
N moderation, lenity, temperateness, gentleness, sobriety, quiet, mental calmness, moderating, anaphrodisia, relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization, assuagement, contemporation, pacification, measure, juste milieu, golden mean, ariston metron, moderator, lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum, rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, poppy or mandragora, wet blanket, palliative, moderate, lenient, gentle, mild, mellow, cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured, tempered, calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still, slow, smooth, untroubled, tame, peaceful, peaceable, pacific, halcyon, unexciting, unirritating, soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive, anodyne, hypnotic, sedative, antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac, mild as mother's milk, milk and water, moderately, gingerly, piano, under easy sail, at half speed, within bounds, within compass, in reason, est modue in rebus, pour oil on troubled waters.

Semiliquidity
N semiliquidity, stickiness, viscidity, viscosity, gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity, spissitude, crassitude, lentor, adhesiveness, inspissation, incrassation, thickening, jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten, carlock, fish glue, ichthyocol, ichthycolla, isinglass, mucus, phlegm, goo, pituite, lava, glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein, treacle, gum, size, glue (tenacity), wax, beeswax, emulsion, soup, squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze, moisture, marsh, semifluid, semiliquid, tremellose, half melted, half frozen, milky, muddy, lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous, emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous, gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous, glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted, viscid, viscous, sticky, tacky, gooey, slab, slabby, lentous, pituitous, mucid, muculent, mucous, gummy.

Whiteness
N whiteness, argent, albification, etiolation, lactescence, snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster, albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white, white lead, carbonate of lead, white, milk-white, snow-white, snowy, niveous, candid, chalky, hoar, hoary, silvery, argent, argentine, canescent, cretaceous, lactescent, whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond, blanched, high in tone, light, white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver, like ivory.

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