milk-warm, a.
Of the approximate temperature of milk fresh-drawn from the cow; new-milk warm.
| c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xii, Caste þer in oyle of camamyle mylke warme iii. dropes. a 1608 Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 253 The first part let her drink (being milk warm) by little and little. 1766 Smollett Trav. II. xxxii. 135 They had baths of cool water for the summer: but in general they used it milk-warm. 1837 Flemish Husb. 62 in Libr. Usef. Knowl., Husb. III, This mess is given milk-warm to the calf. 1894 Kipling Seven Seas (1896) 36 Milk-warm wi' breath o' spice an' bloom. 1918 A. Huxley Defeat of Youth 34 At your mouth, white and milk-warm sphinx. 1922 ― Mortal Coils 177 Shelley had been drowned in this milk-warm sea. |