Milk \Milk\ (m[i^]lk), n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc;
         akin
   to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh,
         Icel.
   mj[=o]lk, Sw. mj["o]lk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks,
         G. melken to
   milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L.
         mulgere, Gr.
   'ame`lgein. [root]107. Cf. Milch, Emulsion, Milt
         soft
   roe of fishes.]
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   1.
         (Physiol.) 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." --Chaucer.
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   2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually
         white in color,
      found in certain plants; latex. See
         Latex.
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   3. An emulsion made by
         bruising seeds; as, the milk of
      almonds, produced by
         pounding almonds with sugar and
      water.
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   4. (Zool.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an
         oyster.
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   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 (Zool.), 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.
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