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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