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[syn: milky, milklike, whitish]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Milky \Milk"y\, a.
1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.
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Pails high foaming with a milky flood. --Pope.
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2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the
water is milky. "Milky juice." --Arbuthnot.
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3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." --Roscommon.
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4. Mild; tame; spiritless.
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Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? --Shak.
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Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
milky
adj 1: resembling milk in color not clear; "milky glass" [syn:
milky, milklike, whitish]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "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