noun. A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young.

noun. The milk of cows, goats, or other animals, used as food by humans.

noun. Any of various potable liquids resembling milk, such as coconut milk or soymilk.

noun. A liquid resembling milk in consistency, such as milkweed sap or milk of magnesia.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To draw milk from the teat or udder of (a female mammal).

intransitive verb. To draw or extract a liquid from.

intransitive verb. To press out, drain off, or remove (a liquid).

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To draw out or extract something from.

intransitive verb. To obtain money or benefits from, in order to achieve personal gain; exploit.

intransitive verb. To obtain the greatest possible advantage from (a situation).

intransitive verb. To get the greatest effect from (a line or scene in a play, for example).

intransitive verb. To yield or supply milk.

intransitive verb. To draw milk from a female mammal.

idiom. (milk it) To take advantage of the help or kindness of others, as when one acts as if one still needs help after recovering from an illness.

To press or draw milk from the breasts or udders of: as, to milk a cow.

To suck.

Figuratively, to drain the contents or the strength from: exhaust gradually: as, to milk a friend's purse; the soil has been milked of its fertility.

In racing slang, to bet against, as an owner against his horse when the horse is to be withdrawn, or cannot win, or is not to be allowed to win.

In telegraphy, to draw part of the current from (a wire) through an instrument without cutting the wire; read a message by placing an induction apparatus close to (the wire).

To supply with milk; feed with milk.

noun. An emulsion; any liquid which holds small particles of solid matter in suspension.

noun. A white or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mammary glands of the females of the class Mammalia, and drawn from their breasts for the nourishment of their young.

noun. Anything resembling milk in appearance, taste, etc., as the juice of the cocoanut and the sap of certain plants (see latex).

noun. The spat before it is discharged from an oyster.

noun. A slight cloudy opacity occurring in some diamonds.

noun. Milk which has undergone a special fermentation caused by a microbe, Bacterium cyanoyenum, which causes it to assume a blue color.

noun. 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.

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

noun. An emulsion made by bruising seeds.

noun. The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

noun. See under Condense, v. t.

noun. vesicular eczema occurring on the face and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema.

noun. A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after calving.

noun. glass having a milky appearance.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. food made from milk, as butter and cheese.

noun. Same as Escutcheon, 2.

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

noun. a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate, produced by macerating quicklime in water.

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

noun. a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants.

noun. See milk sickness in the vocabulary.

noun. 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.

noun. See Lactose, and Sugar of milk (below).

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

noun. See Thrush.

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

"As for dairythe answer is very cleara small percentage of humans myself included have evolved to be able to consume milk as adultsbut as a species we have not evolved to be able to consume and most adult humans cannot in fact consume –milk."

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