Milk

Condensed milk — See under Condense, v. t.

Milk crust — vesicular eczema occurring on the face and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema.

Milk fever — A fever which accompanies or precedes the first lactation

Milk glass — glass having a milky appearance.

Milk knot — a hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands.

Milk leg — a swollen condition of the leg, usually in puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue.

Milk meats — food made from milk, as butter and cheese.

Milk mirror — Same as Escutcheon, 2.

Milk molar — one of the deciduous molar teeth which are shed and replaced by the premolars.

Milk of lime — a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate, produced by macerating quicklime in water.

Milk parsley — an umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum palustre) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice.

Milk pea — a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants.

Milk sickness — See milk sickness in the vocabulary.

Milk snake — a harmless American snake (Ophibolus triangulus, or Ophibolus eximius). It is variously marked with white, gray, and red. Called also milk adder, chicken snake, house snake, etc.

Milk sugar — See Lactose, and Sugar of milk (below).

Milk thistle — an esculent European thistle (Silybum marianum), having the veins of its leaves of a milky whiteness.

Milk thrush — See Thrush.

Milk tooth — one of the temporary first set of teeth in young mammals; in man there are twenty.

Milk tree — a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow tree of South America (Brosimum Galactodendron), and the Euphorbia balsamifera of the Canaries, the milk of both of which is wholesome food.

Milk vessel — a special cell in the inner bark of a plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is contained. See Latex.

Rock milk — See Agaric mineral, under Agaric.

Sugar of milk — The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an article of diet. See Lactose.

To milk the street — to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers.

To milk a telegram — to use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person.