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Milky   /mˈɪlki/   Listen
adjective
Milky  adj.  
1.
Consisting of, or containing, milk. "Pails high foaming with a milky flood."
2.
Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice."
3.
Yielding milk. "Milky mothers."
4.
Mild; tame; spiritless. "Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?"
Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.





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"Milky" Quotes from Famous Books



... clouds of gold green cherry trees upgrow, And bushes of red roses that bloomed above the snow; She smells, all faint, the almond-boughs blowing so wild and fair, And doves with milky eyes ...
— Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes - Volume II. • Walter de la Mare
... morning and night; it will remove all flesh-worms and freckles, and give a beautiful complexion. Or, put one ounce of powdered gum benzoin in a pint of whisky. To use: Put in water in washbowl till it is milky. ...
— The Ladies Book of Useful Information - Compiled from many sources • Anonymous
... he is to take Linnet around the world. Now study, please. Via Lactea" he exclaimed, bending forward and taking the book out of her hand. "What do you know about the Milky Way?" ...
— Miss Prudence - A Story of Two Girls' Lives. • Jennie Maria (Drinkwater) Conklin
... treat for my prentice eyes. Some are fashioned like bells, like extinguishers, like cups; some are drawn out into spindles, hollowed into funnels, rounded into hemispheres. I come upon some that are broken and are weeping milky tears; I step on some that, instantly, become tinged with blue; I see some big ones that are crumbling into rot and swarming with worms. Others, shaped like pears, are dry and open at the top with a round hole, a sort of chimney whence a whiff of smoke escapes ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre
... are wrapped in somber shroud As fades the light of day; A tender flush is on the cloud Beside the milky way; ...
— How to Live a Holy Life • C. E. Orr


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