milk Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
  2. noun produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young
  3. noun a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
    Milk River.
  4. noun any of several nutritive milklike liquids
  5. verb take milk from female mammals
    • Cows need to be milked every morning
  6. verb exploit as much as possible
    • I am milking this for all it's worth
  7. verb add milk to
    • milk the tea

WordNet

Milk noun
Etymology
AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel. mjok, Sw. mjölk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr. . . Cf. Milch, Emulsion, Milt soft roe of fishes.
Definitions
  1. (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.
  2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
  3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
  4. (Zoöl.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
Milk transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Milked ; present participle & verbal noun Milking
Definitions
  1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. "Milking the kine." Gay.
    I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me. Shak.
  2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
  3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale.
    They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator.
Milk intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To draw or to yield milk.

Webster 1913