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Milk and Porcupine Definitions

Milk

A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young.

Porcupine

Any of various rodents of the family Hystricidae, of Eurasia and Africa, or the family Erethizontidae, of the Americas, having long, sharp, erectile quills.

Milk

The milk of cows, goats, or other animals, used as food by humans.

Porcupine

Any of several rodents of either of the taxonomic families Hystricidae (Old World porcupines) or Erethizontidae (New World porcupines), both from the infraorder Hystricognathi, noted for their sharp spines or quills, which are raised when the animal is attacked or surprised.

Milk

Any of various potable liquids resembling milk, such as coconut milk or soymilk.

Porcupine

Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.
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Milk

A liquid resembling milk in consistency, such as milkweed sap or milk of magnesia.

Porcupine

Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species.

Milk

To draw milk from the teat or udder of (a female mammal).

Porcupine

Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur

Milk

To draw or extract a liquid from
Milked the stem for its last drops of sap.

Milk

To press out, drain off, or remove (a liquid)
Milk venom from a snake.
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Milk

To draw out or extract something from
Milked the witness for information.

Milk

To obtain money or benefits from, in order to achieve personal gain; exploit
"The dictator and his cronies had milked their country of somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion" (Russell Watson).

Milk

To obtain the greatest possible advantage from (a situation).

Milk

To get the greatest effect from (a line or scene in a play, for example).

Milk

To yield or supply milk.

Milk

To draw milk from a female mammal.
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Milk

(uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.

Milk

A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans.

Milk

An individual serving of milk.
Table three ordered three milks.

Milk

An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.

Milk

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

Milk

Semen.

Milk

(transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
The farmer milked his cows.

Milk

To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
To milk wholesome milk from healthy cows

Milk

To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.

Milk

(transitive) To express a liquid from a creature.
The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.

Milk

To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.

Milk

(of an electrical storage battery) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.

Milk

To single-mindedly masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.
Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.

Milk

A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.

Milk

A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.

Milk

An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

Milk

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

Milk

To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
I have given suck, and knowHow tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.

Milk

To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.

Milk

To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

Milk

To draw or to yield milk.

Milk

To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; - said of a storage battery.

Milk

A white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

Milk

Produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

Milk

A river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River

Milk

Any of several nutritive milklike liquids

Milk

Take milk from female mammals;
Cows need to be milked every morning

Milk

Exploit as much as possible;
I am milking this for all it's worth

Milk

Add milk to;
Milk the tea

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