Meaning of MILKY
| Pronunciation: | | 'milkee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear; "milk glass" |
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| | Synonyms: | | milk(a), milklike, opaque, whitish |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | argent, argentine, bland, canescent, chalky, changeable, cretaceous, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, grizzled, grizzly, halfhearted, hoar, hoary, indecisive, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, lactiferous, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milch, milk, milk-and-water, mushy, neutral, niveous, platinum, pure white, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, tasteless, vapid, watery, white, white as snow, wishy-washy |
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