An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 546

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 546

2. The foam which falls from a horses mouth, or the drop at the bit, ibid.


Isl. _meldrop-ar_, spuma in terram cadens ex fraeno; from _mel_, a bit, and _drop-a_, to drop.


3. The drop at the end of an icicle, or any pendent drop, ibid.


MILK, _s._ An annual holiday in a school, on which the scholars present a small gift to their master, which has at first received its designation from _milk_, as the princ.i.p.al part of the entertainment.


_To_ ~Milk~ _the tether_, to carry off the milk of any ones cows by milking a _hair-tether_, S., a superst.i.tious idea, also prevalent in Sweden.


~Milker~, _s._ A cow that gives milk, S.


~Milkness~, _s._


1. The state of giving milk, S.


_Ross._


2. Milk itself, S.


_Ferguson._


3. A dairy, S. A. Bor.


4. The produce of the dairy, in whatever form, S.


_Spalding._


~Milkorts~, ~Milkworts~, _s. pl._ The root of the campanula rotundifolia, S. B.


~Milk-syth~, _s._ A milk-strainer, S. corr. _milsie_, _milsey_.


_Bannatyne P._


Also called _the Sey-dish_, from _Sey_, to strain, q. v.


~Milk-woman~, _s._ A wet-nurse, S. B.


_To_ MILL _one out of a thing_, to procure it in an artful way, Loth.


Isl. _mill-a_, lenire.


MILL, _s._ A snuff-box, properly of a cylindrical form. S.


Isl. _mel-ia_, contundere; the box being formerly used in the country as a _mill_ for grinding the dried tobacco leaves.


MILLERS THUMB, _s_ The river Bullhead, S.


_Sibbald._


MILLOIN, MILLAIN, _adj._ Belonging to mail.


_Sir Egeir._


Teut. _maelien;_ or perhaps made in _Milan_.


MILL-LADE, _s._


V. ~ Lade~.


MILL-LICHENS, _s._ The entry into the place where the inner mill-wheel goes, S. B.


V. ~ Lychtnis~.


Perh. q. the lungs or lights of a mill.


MILL-RING, _s._ The dust of a mill, S. B.


MILL-STEW, _s._ The same, S.


Teut. _molen-stof_, pollen.


MILNARE, _s._ A miller.


_Wyntown._


Sw. _moelnare_, id.


_To_ MILT, _v. a._


V. ~ Melt~, _v._


MIM, _adj._


1. Prudish, S.


_Ramsay._