(a) A woman's milk; also, milk in the veins of a virgin martyr; ~ drinkende, an infant, a suckling; (b) the milk of a cow, ewe, she-goat, etc.; (c) crudded as ~, curdled like sour milk; whit as ~ (milkes fom), white as milk; etc.; (d) fig.

In cpds., combs., & genitive phr.: (a) asse ~, camel ~, cou ~ [see also cou 2. (b)]; eue ~ [see also eue 2. (c)]; got(es ~ [see also got lc. (a)]; maiden(es ~, the milk of the Virgin Mary [to be distinguished from maiden(es ~ = lac virgineum, q.v.]; mere(s ~ [see also mere n. (1) 2. (c)]; moder(es ~, shepes ~, soues ~, wives ~, womman(es ~; (b) ~ cuppe, a milk cup or vessel; ~ cou = milch cou; ~ dreues, small quantities of milk [see also dreue (a)]; ~ drinke, milkes drinche, milk for drinking; ~ euen, ewes in milk, milk-giving ewes; ~ kit [see kit(te n. (1) (a)]; ~ mete, a food comprising milk, a dish prepared with milk; ~ pail, a milk bucket, milking pail; milk(es rem, cream; ~ rente, a fee or rent of some kind; ~ roste(s, a dish of cooked milk and eggs, shredded and fried; ~ sie, ~ sile, a milk sieve or strainer; ~ skele, a milk dish; ~ slop, a magic milk bag [quot.: a1400(c1303)]; ~ sop, a piece of bread soaked in milk; also fig.; ~ sloppe, a magic bag used for stealing milk; ~ stoppe, milk pail; ~ strinden, streams of milk; ~ thistel, a kind of plant; ~ vessel, a churn; ~ wif, a female milk vendor; morn ~, q.v.; (c) ~ hot, ~ warm, warm as milk fresh from the cow; ~ whit, milk-white; ~ whit girdel, the Milky Way.

(a) A fluid extract; also, a sauce; maiden(es ~ = lac virgineum [see also maiden 5.]; almaunde ~, ~ of almaundes [see also almaunde 3.]; (b) sap of a plant; also, nectar of a blossom; ~ of figes [see fige 4. (e)]; ~ of titimal.

The milt of fish or of frogs.

In place names and surnames [see Smith PNElem. 2.38].

As adj.: milk-white, white as milk.