Milk, subst. the white fluid with which female animals feed their young: Ven. 902. Tp. II, 1, 288. LLL V, 2, 231. LLL V, 2, 231 Mids. II, 1, 36. V, 345. All's IV, 3, 124. Wint. III, 2, 101. H6A V, 4, 27. Cor. V, 4, 30. Tit. II, 3, 144. Hml. I, 5, 69. Lr. I, 1, 86. Applied, metaphorically, to things of a gentle influence: “adversity's sweet m., philosophy,” Rom. III, 3, 55. “too full of the m. of human kindness,” Mcb. I, 5, 18. “take my m. for gall,” Mcb. I, 5, 18 “I should pour the sweet m. of concord into hell,” IV, 3, 98. Emblem of faintheartedness: “such a dish of skim m.” H4A II, 3, 36: cf. “livers white as m.” Merch. III, 2, 86. Of boyish greenness: “one would think his mother's m. were scarce out of him,” Tw. I, 5, 171.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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