milky Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite resembling milk in color not clear
    milklike; whitish.
    • milky glass

WordNet


Milk"y adjective
Definitions
  1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.
    Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.
  2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot.
  3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon.
  4. Mild; tame; spiritless.
    Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? Shak.

Webster 1913