bilk | (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: elude, evade |
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(verb) evade payment to | - |
(verb) cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money | - |
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
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foremilk | (noun) milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition | Synonyms: colostrum |
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ilk | (noun) a kind of person | Synonyms: like |
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milk | (noun) produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young | - |
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(noun) a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings | - |
(noun) any of several nutritive milklike liquids | - |
(verb) take milk from female mammals | - |
(verb) add milk to | - |
(verb) exploit as much as possible | - |
milkcap | (noun) edible mushroom | Synonyms: Lactarius delicioso |
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milker | (noun) cattle that are reared for their milk | Synonyms: dairy cattle, dairy cow, milch cow, milcher, milk cow |
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milkless | (adjective) having no milk | - |
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milklike | (adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milky, whitish |
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milkmaid | (noun) a woman who works in a dairy | Synonyms: dairymaid |
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milkman | (noun) someone who delivers milk | - |
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milkshake | (noun) frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream | Synonyms: milk shake, shake |
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milksop | (noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: Milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist, sissy |
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milkwagon | (noun) wagon for delivering milk | Synonyms: milk wagon |
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milkweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts | Synonyms: silkweed |
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(noun) annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads | Synonyms: Sonchus oleraceus |
milkwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Polygala | - |
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milky | (adjective) resembling milk in color; not clear | Synonyms: milklike, whitish |
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silk | (noun) a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae | - |
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(noun) animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders | - |
silken | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silklike, silky, sleek, slick |
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silkgrass | (noun) valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico | Synonyms: Indian millet, mountain rice, Oryzopsis hymenoides, silk grass |
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silkily | (adverb) in a silky manner | - |
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silkiness | (noun) the smooth feel of silk fabric | Synonyms: sleekness |
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silklike | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick |
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silks | (noun) the brightly colored garments of a jockey; emblematic of the stable | - |
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silkscreen | (noun) a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil | Synonyms: serigraph, silk screen print |
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(verb) print by silkscreen | - |
silkweed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts | Synonyms: milkweed |
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silkwood | (noun) a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and fleshy edible fruit; a bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves | Synonyms: calabur tree, calabura, Jamaican cherry, Muntingia calabura, silk wood |
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silkworm | (noun) the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk | - |
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(noun) larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon | Synonyms: giant silkworm, wild wilkworm |
silky | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, sleek, slick |
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soymilk | (noun) a milk substitute containing soybean flour and water; used in some infant formulas and in making tofu | Synonyms: soya milk, soybean milk |
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