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Webster 1913 Edition


Milky

Milk′y

,
Adj.
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?
Shakespeare
Milky Way
.
(Astron.)
See
Galaxy
, 1.

Webster 1828 Edition


Milky

MILK'Y

,
Adj.
Made of milk.
1.
Resembling milk; as milky sap or juice.
2.
Yielding milk; as milky mothers.
3.
Soft; mild; gentle; timorous; as a milky heart.