milkful

English

Etymology

milk +‎ -ful

Adjective

milkful (comparative more milkful, superlative most milkful)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Full of milk; abounding with food.
    • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
      milk-full vales
    • 1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97:
      The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for milkful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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