Definition of Milk

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Definition of Milk

Milk

A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.

A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.

An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.

To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.

To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.

To draw or to yield milk.

To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage battery.

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Milk Quotations

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
W. C. Fields

Get off your horse and drink your milk.
John Wayne

I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?
Jack LaLanne

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
Jack LaLanne

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
Woody Allen

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
H. L. Mencken

The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
Ogden Nash

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell

Milk Translations

milk in Afrikaans is melk
milk in Dutch is melk
milk in French is trayez, traient, laitier, trayons, lait, traire
milk in German is Milch
milk in Hungarian is tej
milk in Italian is latte
milk in Latin is lac lactis
milk in Norwegian is melk
milk in Portuguese is leite
milk in Spanish is leche

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