Hypertext Webster Gateway: "milky"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Milky \Milk"y\, a.
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? --Shak.
{Milky Way}. (Astron.) See {Galaxy}, 1.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
milky
adj : resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear; "milk
glass" [syn: {milk(a)}, {milklike}, {whitish}]
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