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milky

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CIDE DICTIONARY

milkya. 
  •  Consisting of, or containing, milk.  [1913 Webster]
    "Pails high foaming with a milky flood."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. “Milky juice.”  Arbuthnot.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Yielding milk.  Roscommon.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Mild; tame; spiritless.  [1913 Webster]
    "Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?"  [1913 Webster]
Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

milky, adj. (milkier, milkiest)
1 of, like, or mixed with milk.
2 (of a gem or liquid) cloudy; not clear.
3 effeminate; weakly amiable.

Idiom
Milky Way a faintly luminous band of light emitted by countless stars encircling the heavens; the Galaxy.
Derivative
milkiness n.

THESAURUS

milky

argent, argentine, bland, canescent, chalky, changeable, cretaceous, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, grizzled, grizzly, halfhearted, hoar, hoary, indecisive, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, lactiferous, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milch, milk, milk-and-water, mushy, neutral, niveous, platinum, pure white, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, tasteless, vapid, watery, white, white as snow, wishy-washy

ROGET THESAURUS

milky

Semiliquidity

N semiliquidity, stickiness, viscidity, viscosity, gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity, spissitude, crassitude, lentor, adhesiveness, inspissation, incrassation, thickening, jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten, carlock, fish glue, ichthyocol, ichthycolla, isinglass, mucus, phlegm, goo, pituite, lava, glair, starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream, protein, treacle, gum, size, glue (tenacity), wax, beeswax, emulsion, soup, squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze, moisture, marsh, semifluid, semiliquid, tremellose, half melted, half frozen, milky, muddy, lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous, emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous, gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous, glutenous, gelatin, mastic, amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted, viscid, viscous, sticky, tacky, gooey, slab, slabby, lentous, pituitous, mucid, muculent, mucous, gummy.

Semitransparency

N semitransparency, translucency, semiopacity, opalescence, milkiness, pearliness, gauze, muslin, film, mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre, mist, opal, turbidity, Adj, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, V, opalesce, (ii) SPECIFIC LIGHT, semitransparency, translucency, semiopacity, opalescence, milkiness, pearliness, gauze, muslin, film, mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre, mist, opal, turbidity, Adj, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous, semiopaque, opalescent, opaline, pearly, milky, frosted, nacreous, V, opalesce, (ii) SPECIFIC LIGHT.


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