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2781 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Milk.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
This Hebrew word is also sometimes used for milk in general ( Deuteronomy 32:14; Job 20:17 ).
2782 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Sisera.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… curdled milk) “in a lordly dish.” Having drunk the refreshing beverage, he lay down, and soon sank into the sleep of the weary. While he lay asleep Jael crept stealthily …
2783 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Sisera.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… him milk; She brought him cream in a lordly dish. She stretched forth her hand to the nail, Her right hand to the workman’s hammer, And she smote Sisera; she crushed …
2784 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Wine.16 (Matthew G. Easton)
… with milk and honey” (debash), Exodus 3:8, Exodus 3:17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:3; Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 13:27. (See HONEY .)
2785 Etymology dictionary, p. ablactation (n.).2
… lactis ) "milk" (from PIE root *g(a)lag- "milk").
2786 Etymology dictionary, p. acidophilus (adj.).2
… of milk fermented by acidophilic bacteria, from acidophil (1900), indicating "easily stained by acid dyes," a hybrid word, from Latin acidus "acidic, sour, tart …
2787 Etymology dictionary, p. albacore (n.).2
name given to a large type of tuna caught in the Tropics, 1570s, from Portuguese albacora, from Arabic al bakara "milk cow;" the fish so called for its size.
2788 Etymology dictionary, p. balderdash (n.).2
… liquors" (milk and beer, beer and wine, etc.); by 1670s as "senseless jumble of words." Perhaps from dash and the first element perhaps cognate with Danish balder …
2789 Etymology dictionary, p. batter (n.1).2
in cookery, "a mixture of ingredients (flour, eggs, milk) beaten together," late 14c., from Old French batteure "a beating," from Latin battuere "to beat, knock" (see batter (v.)).
2790 Etymology dictionary, p. beestings (n.).2
"colostrum," late Old English bysting, from beost "first milk of a cow after calving," a general West Germanic word (cognates: Old High German biost, German Biest, Middle Dutch and Dutch biest, North Frisian bjast ) of unknown origin.
2791 Etymology dictionary, p. bonnyclabber (n.).2
… soured milk," 1620s (in shortened form clabber ), from Modern Irish bainne "milk" (from Middle Irish banne "drop," also, rarely, "milk"; cognate with Sanskrit bindu- "drop …
2792 Etymology dictionary, p. booze (n.).3
… wine, milk, sugar and rose-water in the summer time." In New Zealand from c. World War II, a drinking binge was a boozeroo .
2793 Etymology dictionary, p. brose (n.).2
… boiling milk, liquid in which meat has been broiled, seasoning, etc., poured over oatmeal or barley meal, 1650s, Scottish, earlier browes, from Old French broez …
2794 Etymology dictionary, p. butter (n.).2
… of milk," obtained from cream by churning, general West Germanic (compare Old Frisian, Old High German butera, German Butter, Dutch boter ), an early loan-word from …
2795 Etymology dictionary, p. butterfly (n.).2
… or milk that is left uncovered. Or, less creatively, simply because the pale yellow color of many species' wings suggests the color of butter. Another theory …
2796 Etymology dictionary, p. buttermilk (n.).2
liquid that remains after the butter has been churned out of milk, c. 1500, from butter (n.) + milk (n.). Compare German Buttermilch, Dutch botermelk. Middle French had laict beurré and babeurre.
2797 Etymology dictionary, p. buttermilk (n.).3
… milk" by 1590s. Said to be either from a practice of letting the milk sour before churning to make the cream separate, or from the post-churning milk being …
2798 Etymology dictionary, p. cafe au lait (n.).2
1763, French café au lait, literally "coffee with milk," from lait "milk" (12c.), from Latin lactis, genitive of lac "milk" (see lacto- ). As opposed to café noir "black coffee."
2799 Etymology dictionary, p. cappuccino (n.).2
"espresso coffee with steamed milk foam," 1948, from Italian cappuccino, from Capuchin in reference to the beverage's color, which supposedly resembles to that of the brown hoods of the Friars Minor Capuchins (see Capuchin ).
2800 Etymology dictionary, p. casein (n.).2
principal protein-constituent of milk, forming the basis of cheese, 1841, from French caséine, from Latin caseus "cheese" (see cheese (n.1)) + chemical suffix -ine (2).