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used sometimes to make a raid on the milkhouse. Tacket ix.: It was a long low thatched tenement containing a but and ben, with a middle apartment called the milk-house.
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81: A milk-house must be cool but free from damp. 18: In Aithsting the end of the “sharin” was celebrated with de affsharin mil gruel. 1899 Shetland News (5 Aug.): Could doo no mak wiz a pan o' mylgruul? Sh. Spence Folk-Lore 188: The Johnsmas at Midsummer, when they supped the “milgruel kits”. (25 Oct.): Twa-three milkfostered calves for sale. 107: When they came near the end o' their journey, To the house o' their father's milk-dey. 1900 Shetland News (2 June): We niver hed a better mylk koo apo' da byre. Paul Past and Present 131: Hawkie is a good milk cow. v.: Hanover was the Britannic Majesty's beloved son and the British Empire his opulent milk-cow. McIndoe Poems 140: What feck o' stirks an' milk cows hae ye? Sc. Cameron Fettercairn 269: Near the cross were exposed for sale a few tubs, butter-kits, and milk-cogues. (25 June): Milk broth, breed an' cheese an' a gweed waucht o' milk wis the denner that eest tae be cairriet oot tae the hairsters lang, lang ago. 1951 Hotch-Potch 5: Followed by curds and cream, Milk Broth formed the Sunday dinner at many farms in the North East. with a bit of meat where this can be had, or with milk, when it is called milk broth. 518: The most economical way of using bear or barley, is when it is ground on a barley mill, and boiled as pot barley. Douglas Eliza for Common xiii.: An' I've some guid thick cream, for Jeannie at Hill-foot skimmed the best o' a milk-bine for me. Wha aften did the kirn and milk-boynes fill. xx.: All the stools and chairs in the house, with the milk and washing boynes upside down. Whitehead Daft Davie (1894) 202: She could handle a milk-bowie muckle better than a pen. 213: To bear the milk-bowie, nae pain was to me, When I at the bughting forgather'd with thee. (April) 346: She would tell them nothing more, than that she was getting milk and bread from her mother. 1825 Jam.) (ii) the sun spurge, Euphorbia helioscopia (Dmb. (1) (40) milkwort, -ort, (i) in pl.: the root of the harebell, Campanula rotundifolia (n.Sc. 1825 Jam., obsol.) (39) milk woman, a wet nurse. 1825 Jam.) †a wall with crenellated battlements (Peb. See Sye milsie-wall, a wall wholly or partly formed of criss-cross laths, arranged like the wires of a milk-strainer, a dairy wall ventilated with a wire gauze or perforated metal window (Bwk. milsie-clout, the piece of thin cloth used as a milk-strainer (Sc. See Stoup (38) milk-sye, -sey, -† syth, and reduced forms mils(e)y, milsie, milcie melsie mul(l)sie malsie, a milk-strainer (Sc. 1962) (35) milk-soup, soup made with milk and †bread or rice, or with fish and milk as basic ingredients (Abd. See Sap (33) milk-sieve, a milk strainer (Sc. Beattie Scoticisms 70) (32) milk-saps, a dish of pieces of bread soaked in hot milk and sweetened (Bnff. 1963) (30) milk pot, a vessel for containing milk, a milk-jug (Ork. (29) milk-plate, a large shallow glazed earthenware dish in which milk is kept to form cream (Abd. to break the milk-pail, to lose a chief source of profit, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg (28) milk parritch, -porridge, = (2). 1962) (26) milk nurse, a wet nurse (27) milk-pail, in fig. Peattie MS.) broth made with skimmed milk (ne.Sc. 1903 E.D.D.) (ii) bread sops covered with boiling milk (Fif. Borders 151) (ii) milkmaid's path, the milky way (Sc. Also madlocks (23) milkmaid, in combs.: (i) milkmaid's eye, the germander speedwell, Veronica chamœdrys (Bwk. (20) milk-keg, = (7) (21) milk-lue, adj., at the temperature of milk fresh from the cow, luke-warm (I.Sc., Cai. See Dey (15) milk-fostered, of a calf: hand-reared on milk (16) milk gowan, see Gowan (17) mil(l)-gruel, mylgruul, porridge made with milk instead of water (Sh. (13) milk-denner, a one-course midday meal consisting of milk pudding (Abd. 1962) (11) milk-cog, a wooden milking vessel (Ayr. 1962) (10) milk-cellar, a small room, usually off the kitchen of a farmhouse, used as a dairy (Ork., Abd. See Brose (9) milk-broth, a broth made with barley and milk (see quots.) (Sc. (8) milk-brose, a dish made by mixing boiling milk with oatmeal (I. (7) milk-boyne, -boyen, -bine, a broad, shallow wooden vessel for holding milk (Fif., w. 1962) (6) milk-bowie, a wooden bucket for holding milk (ne.Sc., Ags., Per. caused by friction when milking, a whitlow (Ayr., Gall., s.Sc., Uls.
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1962) sweet rocket, Hesperis (Id.) (4) milk-bake, a biscuit made with milk (5) milk-beal(in), a festering at the side of the fingernail freq. 145) (3) milk-and-water, the cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis (Ags. 1962) (2) milk-and-meal, porridge boiled in milk (n.Sc. Combs.: (1) mitk-and-breid, oatcakes crumbled in milk (Sc. Hide Quotations Hide Etymology Cite this entry