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1161 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LACTESCENCE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Tendency to milk; milkiness or milky color.
1162 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LACTESCENT.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Producing milk or white juice.
1163 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LACTIC.1 (Noah Webster)
LACTIC, a. Pertaining to milk, or procured from sour milk or whey; as the lactic acid.
1164 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LACTIFEROUS.1 (Noah Webster)
LACTIFEROUS, a. [L. lac, milk, and fero, to bear.]
1165 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LACTIFEROUS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Bearing or conveying milk or white juice; as a lactiferous duct.
1166 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LAP.18 (Noah Webster)
LAP, v.t. To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up; as, a cat laps milk.
1167 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LETTUCE.1 (Noah Webster)
LETTUCE, n. let’tis. [L. lactuca, according to Varro, from lac, milk.]
1168 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LICK.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To lap; to take in by the tongue; as, a dog or cat licks milk. 1 Kings 21:19 .
1169 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIQUID.7 (Noah Webster)
1. A fluid or flowing substance; a substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and which flows on an inclined plane; as water, wine, milk, etc.
1170 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIQUOR.2 (Noah Webster)
… water, milk, blood, say, juice, etc.; but its most common application is to spirituous fluids, whether distilled or fermented, to decoctions, solutions, tinctures …
1171 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAMMIFER.2 (Noah Webster)
An animal which has breasts for nourishing its young. The mammifers have a double system of circulation, red and warm blood; the fetus is nourished in the matrix by means of one or more placentas, and the young by milk secreted by the breasts.
1172 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAMMIFEROUS.1 (Noah Webster)
MAMMIFEROUS, a. [supra.] Having breasts and nourishing the young by the milk secreted by them.
1173 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MILCH.1 (Noah Webster)
MILCH, a. Giving milk; as a milch cow. It is now applied only to beasts.
1174 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MILK.1 (Noah Webster)
MILK, n.
1175 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MILK.5 (Noah Webster)
MILK, v.t. [L. mulgeo.]
1176 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MILK.6 (Noah Webster)
1. To draw or press milk from the breasts by the hand, as, to milk a cow.
1177 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MILKEN.1 (Noah Webster)
MILKEN, a. Consisting of milk. [Not used.]
1178 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MILKER.1 (Noah Webster)
MILKER, n. One that milks.
1179 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MILK-FEVER.1 (Noah Webster)
MILK-FEVER, n. A fever which accompanies the first flowing of milk in females after childbirth.
1180 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MILK-HEDGE.1 (Noah Webster)
MILK-HEDGE, n. A shrub growing on the Coromandel coast, containing a milky juice.