Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without milk; specifically, in botany, not supplied with or producing milk, a character of high importance in agaricinous fungi.

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  • adjective Without milk.

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  • adjective having no milk

Etymologies

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milk +‎ -less

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Examples

  • On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.

    Eat Well, Move More, Live Longer. . . ? Dungeekin 2009

  • On to each was dumped swiftly the regulation lunch -- a metal pannikin of pinkish-grey stew, a hunk of bread, a cube of cheese, a mug of milkless Victory Coffee, and one saccharine tablet.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • Lazily jab that spoon at the uneaten remains of your milkless cereal!

    A Pair of Allowances Bennett Elliott 2010

  • But I was milkless, and as every right-thinking person knows, you cannot make a latte without milk.

    got coffee? « raincoaster 2007

  • Drinkin: I had two Glenmorangie Burgandies and I'm working on a massive milkless mudslide, and I have a cold so I'm a really cheap date.

    November 5th, 2005 lapak 2005

  • By the time it became readily available again I had learned to like my tea weak, milkless, and unsweetened.

    Farthing 2006

  • Anything but the real thing: milkless milk, flourless bread, sugarless sugar ….

    New York World 2006

  • Anything but the real thing: milkless milk, flourless bread, sugarless sugar ….

    New York World 2006

  • With that so tiresome old milkless a ram, with his tiresome duty peck and his bronchial tubes, the tiresome old hairyg orangogran beaver, in his tiresome old twennysixandsixpenny sheopards plods drowsers and his thirtybobandninepenny tails plus toop!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Someone managed to find dry sticks and get a fire going, and we all had milkless tea out of

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

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