What does the word milk mean?
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The white liquid secreted by the mammary glands. It contains proteins, sugar, lipids, vitamins, and minerals.
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A fluid secreted by the mammary glands of the females of the mammalia. The skimmed milk of the cow, contains water, caseous matter, traces of butter, sugar of milk, chloride of sodium, phosphate, and acetate of potasa, lactic acid, lactate of iron, and earthy phosphate. The cream is formed of butter, casein, and whey, in which there is sugar of milk and salts. When examined by the microscope, milk is seen to contain a large number of particles, or irregular size and shape, varying from 1/12700 th to 1/3040 th of an inch in diameter. They consist of oily matter, surrounded by a delicate pellicle, and are the milk globules.
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Any liquid resembling m., in appearance; a white emulsion; as M. of lime, M. ( or mixture) of asafetida.
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Usage examples for milk
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Do you want more milk? – Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods by Laura Lee Hope
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In conversation with this friend about the son whose " milk" name was " Have a Man," I constantly spoke of the boy by his " school" name, the only name by which I knew him. – The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland
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