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noun A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young.
noun The milk of cows, goats, or other animals, used as food by humans.
noun A liquid, such as coconut milk, milkweed sap, plant latex, or various medical emulsions, that is similar to milk in appearance.

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A white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of the females of the class Mammalia, and drawn from their breasts for the nourishment of their young. It is opaque, with a slight peculiar odor and a bland sweetish taste. Its chemical constituents in different mammals are qualitatively alike, but quantitatively vary much, not only in different species, but also in different individuals, or even at different times in the same individual. The amount of water varies from about 80 to 90 per cent., the residue being composed of albuminoids (casein and lactopro-tein), fat, milk-sugar, and certain salts, chiefly phosphates. Under the microscope it appears as a clear transparent fluid, in which a large number of minute globules are suspended. When allowed rorest, these globules rise to the surface, forming a yellowish stratum, the cream, which consists main-ly of the fat, mixed with some casein, and retaining some serum. In the cow about 5 per cent. of the milk is cream, in the human female less, in the mare scarcely more than 1 per cent. By churning, the globules unite to form butter, leaving the buttermilk, which is essentially a solution of milk-sugar, with the salts and some casein and butter. The milk from which cream is separated is skimmed milk, which when left to itself (if not too cold) develops, from the action of a certain bacterium, lactic acid, which separates the casein in a coagulated condition called curds; the same effect is produced by some other acids, and by rennet, the prepared inner membrane of the stomach of a calf. The liquid separated from the coagulum is called whey, and contains chiefly milk-sugar and some salts. Cheese is prepared by coagulating milk with rennet, allowing the whey to separate, and adding salt to the curd. The specific gravity of both cow's and human milk is about 1.030. Human milk is always alkaline, cow's milk either alkaline or acid, while the milk of carnivora is always acid. Milk represents a complete or typical food, in which all the constituents necessary for maintaining the life and growth of the body are present. In rare instances milk, in greater or less abundance, is secreted by the mammary glands of the adult human male. Milke before wine, I would twere mine; Milke taken after, is poisons daughter. Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), Index, p. 100. She bath'd her body many a time In fountains fill'd with milk. Queen Eleanor's Fall (Child's Ballads, VII. 297).
Anything resembling milk in appearance, taste, etc., as the juice of the cocoanut and the sap of certain plants (see latex). Thoo [squills] that in hilles growe or places colde Have litel mylk. Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 124. At the time when the contents of the berry [wheat] are in the condition technically known as milk. Ure, Dict., IV. 153.
The spat before it is discharged from an oyster.

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Last time the milk was all right when you took it out of the fridge. — Shroud for a Nightingale
This milk is also employed as glue. — Martin Rattler
The milkman grasps the teat with clean hands, while the milk is allowed to flow through several thicknesses of sterilized gauze into the sanitary milking pail. — The Mother and Her Child
This milk is at once poured into sterile bottles, is quickly cooled and shipped in ice to the substations where the delivery wagon is waiting. — The Mother and Her Child
The cork, on being extracted, came out with a loud report, followed by a bluish smoke; the milk was a little acid, but not disagreeable to taste A grove of cow-trees is a grand sight, for the species grows to a great height, and the trunk may be fifty or more feet without a branch; near the top the branches cluster together, displaying tough and ribbed leaves. — Chatterbox, 1905.

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Middle English, from Old English milc; see melg- in Indo-European roots.

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from Middle English milk, mylk, melk, mulc, from Anglo-Saxon meolc, meoluc (not *milc) = OFries. melok = Dutch melk = Middle Low German Low German melk = Old High German miluh, Middle High German milich, milch, German milch = Icelandic mjōlk = Swedish mjölk = Danish melk = Goth, miluks, milk; cf. Irish melg = Old Bulgarian mleko = Polish Bohemian mleko = Servian mlijeko-Russian moloko = Wendish mloko, melauka (all prob. borrowed from or modified according to the Teutonic, having k for the reg. g) (cf. Welsh llaeth, Latin lac(t-) = Greek γάλα (γαλακτ-), milk, of different origin: see lactate, etc., galaxy, etc.); derived from a common Indo-European verb, namely, Anglo-Saxon melcan (preterit mealc, past participle molcen) = Dutch melken = Middle Low German Low German melken = Old High German melchan, Middle High German melchun, melken, German melken = Gothic (Moesogothic) *milkan (not recorded), a strong verb partly displaced by, or merged in, a later weak verb, English milk = OFries. melka = Icelandic mjōlka, etc., depending on the noun; cf. Old Bulgarian mlīza, mlesti, etc., = Russian melzitĭi- Lithuanian milsti = Latin mulgere = Greek ἁμέλγειν, milk. = Sanskrit √ marj = Zend √ marez, stroke, rub. Hence milk, v., and milch, adjective
from Middle English milken, from Anglo-Saxon meolcian = OFries. melka (= Icelandic mjōlka = Swedish mjölka = Danish malke), draw milk, give milk, from meolc, milk: see milk, n., where an earlier form of the verb is mentioned.

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