lactary, a. and n. rare.
(ˈlæktərɪ)
[ad. L. lactāri-us, f. lact-, lac milk.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to milk; concerned with milk. † Of a plant: Yielding a milky juice.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. x. 323 Why also from Lactary or milky plants which have a white and lacteous juice dispersed through every part, there arise flowers blue and yellow? 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 263 A Lactary and a ferulaceous Herb. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Column, Lactary Column, at Rome [= L. lactaria columna]. 1892 Ld. Lytton King Poppy i. 381 The Titular Head Of the State's Lactary Department, she. |
B. n. † a. (See quot. 1623.) Obs.—0 b. A dairy.
| 1623 Cockeram, Lactarie, She that selleth milke. 1669–81 Worlidge Syst. Agric., Dict. Rust., Lactary, a Dairy⁓house. 1755 in Johnson. Hence in mod. Dicts. |