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The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.

• Milk vetch
  A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.
• Milkwort
  A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
• MILKLIVERED
  White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
• MILKSICKNESS
  A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting,
• MILKVETCH
  A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. Note: The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and eve
• Milkiness
  State or quality of being milky.
• Milk-livered
  White-livered; cowardly; timorous.

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