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1121 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAIRY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Milk, and all that concerns it, on a farm; or the business of managing milk, and of making butter and cheese. The whole establishment respecting milk, in a family, or on a farm.
1122 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAIRY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The place, room or house, where milk is set for cream, managed, and converted into butter or cheese.
1123 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAIRY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Milk-farm.
1124 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAIRYHOUSE.1 (Noah Webster)
DAIRYHOUSE, DAIRYROOM, n. A house or room appropriated to the management of milk.
1125 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DAIRYMAID.1 (Noah Webster)
DAIRYMAID, n. A female servant whose business is to manage milk.
1126 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIET.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Food or victuals; as, milk is a wholesome diet; flesh is nourishing diet.
1127 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DOUGH-NUT.1 (Noah Webster)
DOUGH-NUT, n. [dough and nut.] A small roundish cake, made of flour, eggs and sugar, moistened with milk and boiled in lard.
1128 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DRY.6 (Noah Webster)
5. Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
1129 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EAGER.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Sharp; sour; acid; as eager droppings into milk. [Little used.]
1130 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EMULGENT.1 (Noah Webster)
EMULGENT, a. [L. emulgeo; e and mulgeo, to milk out.]
1131 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EMULGENT.2 (Noah Webster)
… a milking or straining of the serum whence the name.
1132 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EMULSION.1 (Noah Webster)
EMULSION, n. [L. emulsus, emulgeo, to milk out.]
1133 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EMULSION.2 (Noah Webster)
A soft liquid remedy of a color and consistence resembling milk; any milk-like mixture prepared by uniting oil and water, by means of another substance, saccharine or mucilaginous.
1134 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EMULSIVE.1 (Noah Webster)
EMULSIVE, a. Softening; milk-like.
1135 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EMULSIVE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Producing or yielding a milk-like substance; as emulsive acids.
1136 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FARROW.4 (Noah Webster)
Not producing young in a particular season or year; applied to cows only. If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow, or to go farrow. Such a cow may give milk through the year.
1137 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLEET.17 (Noah Webster)
3. To skim milk. [Local, in England.]
1138 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLOW.7 (Noah Webster)
In that day the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk. Joel 3:18 .
1139 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLUMMERY.3 (Noah Webster)
Milk and flummery are very fit for children.
1140 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FRUMENTY.1 (Noah Webster)
FRUMENTY, n. [L. frumentum, wheat or grain.] Food made of wheat boiled in milk.