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Milky   /mˈɪlki/   Listen
adjective
Milky  adj.  
1.
Consisting of, or containing, milk. "Pails high foaming with a milky flood."
2.
Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice."
3.
Yielding milk. "Milky mothers."
4.
Mild; tame; spiritless. "Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?"
Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.





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"Milky" Quotes from Famous Books



... of old have sung the vine Such a theme shall ne'er be mine; Weaker strains to me belong, Paeans sung to thee, Souchong! What though I may never sip Rubies from my tea-cup's lip; Do not milky pearls combine In this steaming cup of mine? What though round my youthful brow I ne'er twine the myrtle's bough? For such wreaths my soul ne'er grieves. Whilst I own my Twankay's leaves. Though for me no altar burns, Kettles boil and bubble—urns In each ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... water sent the drops flying into the blue air, to glimmer there in silver brightness a moment, like a patch of the starry Milky ...
— Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... on the Whitsuntide before Held court at old Caerleon upon Usk. There on a day, he sitting high in hall, Before him came a forester of Dean, Wet from the woods, with notice of a hart Taller than all his fellows, milky-white, First seen that day: these things he told the King. Then the good King gave order to let blow His horns for hunting on the morrow morn. And when the Queen petition'd for his leave To see the hunt, allow'd it easily. So with the morning all the court ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester
... reflection to a great distance.' The King said: 'But how can this be done when no subjectum is provided? for in the case you quote the wall is the subjectum to the reflection.' I replied: 'It is a similar effect to that which we observe in the Milky Way, and in the reflection of light when many candles are lighted in a mass; these always produce a certain clear and lucent ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters
... that the flame is extinguished. This proves the absence of sufficient oxygen to support combustion. Pour in a little limewater(43) and shake to mix with the air. The change of the limewater to a milky white color proves the ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.


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