Milky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Milky \Milk"y\, a.
     1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.
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              Pails high foaming with a milky flood. --Pope.
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     2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the
        water is milky. "Milky juice." --Arbuthnot.
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     3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." --Roscommon.
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     4. Mild; tame; spiritless.
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              Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? --Shak.
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     {Milky Way}. (Astron.) See {Galaxy}, 1.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  milky
       adj : resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear; "milky
             glass" [syn: {milklike}, {whitish}]
       [also: {milkiest}, {milkier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "milky":
     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