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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |