[U]
1 the white liquid produced by cows, goats and some other animals as food for their young and used as a drink by humans:
a pint / litre of milk * a bottle / carton of milk * fresh / dried / powdered milk * Do you take milk in your tea? * milk products (= butter, cheese, etc.)
seealsoBUTTERMILK, CONDENSEDMILK, EVAPORATEDMILK, MALTEDMILK, SKIMMEDMILK
2 the white liquid that is produced by women and female MAMMALS for feeding their babies:
breast milk
3 the white juice of some plants and trees, especially the COCONUT
IDIOMS
the milk of human kindness (literary) kind behaviour, considered to be natural to human beings
moreatCRYv., LANDn.
verb [VN]
1 to take milk from a cow, goat, etc.
2 ~ A (of B
