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2. The foam which falls from a horse's mouth, or the drop at the bit, ibid.
Isl. _meldrop-ar_, spuma in terram cadens ex fraeno; from _mel_, a bit, and _drop-a_, to drop.
3. The drop at the end of an icicle, or any pendent drop, ibid.
MILK, _s._ An annual holiday in a school, on which the scholars present a small gift to their master, which has at first received its designation from _milk_, as the princ.i.p.al part of the entertainment.
_To_ ~Milk~ _the tether_, to carry off the milk of any one's cows by milking a _hair-tether_, S., a superst.i.tious idea, also prevalent in Sweden.
~Milker~, _s._ A cow that gives milk, S.
~Milkness~, _s._
1. The state of giving milk, S.
_Ross._
2. Milk itself, S.
_Ferguson._
3. A dairy, S. A. Bor.
4. The produce of the dairy, in whatever form, S.
_Spalding._
~Milkorts~, ~Milkworts~, _s. pl._ The root of the campanula rotundifolia, S. B.
~Milk-syth~, _s._ A milk-strainer, S. corr. _milsie_, _milsey_.
_Bannatyne P._
Also called _the Sey-dish_, from _Sey_, to strain, q. v.
~Milk-woman~, _s._ A wet-nurse, S. B.
_To_ MILL _one out of a thing_, to procure it in an artful way, Loth.
Isl. _mill-a_, lenire.
MILL, _s._ A snuff-box, properly of a cylindrical form. S.
Isl. _mel-ia_, contundere; the box being formerly used in the country as a _mill_ for grinding the dried tobacco leaves.
MILLER'S THUMB, _s_ The river Bullhead, S.
_Sibbald._
MILLOIN, MILLAIN, _adj._ Belonging to mail.
_Sir Egeir._
Teut. _maelien;_ or perhaps made in _Milan_.
MILL-LADE, _s._
V. ~ Lade~.
MILL-LICHENS, _s._ The entry into the place where the inner mill-wheel goes, S. B.
V. ~ Lychtnis~.
Perh. q. the lungs or lights of a mill.
MILL-RING, _s._ The dust of a mill, S. B.
MILL-STEW, _s._ The same, S.
Teut. _molen-stof_, pollen.
MILNARE, _s._ A miller.
_Wyntown._
Sw. _moelnare_, id.
_To_ MILT, _v. a._
V. ~ Melt~, _v._
MIM, _adj._
1. Prudish, S.
_Ramsay._
