Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as milk-hedge.
  • noun A shrub of the genus Wrightia, a native of India.
  • noun A shrub, Wrightia saligna, a native of Queensland.
  • noun See the extract.

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Examples

  • During the years 1843 – 44 my regiment, almost all Hindu Sepoys of the Bombay Presidency, was stationed at a purgatory called Bandar Ghárrá,405 a sandy flat with a scatter of verdigris-green milk-bush some forty miles north of

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • They had left him now too wan and weak to dream again; left him to lie torpid, faintly remembering far-off things; just able to turn his eyes and gaze through the window near his cot at the trickle of river running by in the sands, at the straggling milk-bush of the Karoo beyond.

    In Chancery 2004

  • They had left him now too wan and weak to dream again; left him to lie torpid, faintly remembering far-off things; just able to turn his eyes and gaze through the window near his cot at the trickle of river running by in the sands, at the straggling milk-bush of the Karoo beyond.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • They had left him now too wan and weak to dream again; left him to lie torpid, faintly remembering far-off things; just able to turn his eyes and gaze through the window near his cot at the trickle of river running by in the sands, at the straggling milk-bush of the Karoo beyond.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • They had left him now too wan and weak to dream again; left him to lie torpid, faintly remembering far-off things; just able to turn his eyes and gaze through the window near his cot at the trickle of river running by in the sands, at the straggling milk-bush of the Karoo beyond.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery John Galsworthy 1900

  • At broad high noon he came upon her, in a bare, stony place tufted with milk-bush.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • At the whip-like crack of the rifle the two dogs dashed forward into the thick clumps of low milk-bush into which the bird had fallen, and presently reappeared,

    Through Veld and Forest An African Story Harry Collingwood 1886

  • But the dog stood fast, and began to bark; then plunged in amongst some milk-bush, and barked louder than ever.

    Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure George Manville Fenn 1870

  • During the years 1843-44 my regiment, almost all Hindu Sepoys of the Bombay Presidency, was stationed at a purgatory called Bandar Ghárrá, [FN#405] a sandy flat with a scatter of verdigris-green milk-bush some forty miles north of Karáchi the headquarters.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The banks were fringed with milk-bush and Asclepias, the Armo-creeper, a variety of thorns, and especially the yellow-berried

    First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

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