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.

3.

Yielding milk.

"Milky mothers."

Roscommon.

4.

Mild; tame; spiritless.

Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? Shak.

Milky Way. Astron. See Galaxy, 1.

 

© Webster 1913.

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