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Egg

An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an embryo develops until it can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches. An egg results from fertilization of an egg cell.

Milk

Milk (also known in unfermented form as sweet milk) is a nutrient-rich liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals, including breastfed human infants before they are able to digest solid food.

Egg

A female gamete; an ovum. Also called egg cell.

Milk

An opaque white fluid rich in fat and protein, secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young
A healthy mother will produce enough milk for her baby

Egg

The round or oval female reproductive body of various animals, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and insects, consisting usually of an embryo surrounded by nutrient material and a protective covering.
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Milk

Draw milk from (a cow or other animal), either by hand or mechanically
Two hours later he was up again to milk the cows
I had to start the milking

Egg

The oval, thin-shelled reproductive body of a bird, especially that of a hen, used as food.

Milk

Exploit or defraud by taking small amounts of money over a period of time
Executives milked the health plan's funds for their personal use

Egg

Something having the ovoid shape of an egg.

Milk

A whitish liquid containing proteins, fats, lactose, and various vitamins and minerals that is produced by the mammary glands of all mature female mammals after they have given birth and serves as nourishment for their young.
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Egg

(Slang) A fellow; a person
He's a good egg.

Milk

The milk of cows, goats, or other animals, used as food by humans.

Egg

To cover with beaten egg, as in cooking.

Milk

Any of various potable liquids resembling milk, such as coconut milk or soymilk.

Egg

(Slang) To throw eggs at.

Milk

A liquid resembling milk in consistency, such as milkweed sap or milk of magnesia.

Egg

To encourage or incite to action. Used with on
The racing fans egged their favorites on.

Milk

To draw milk from the teat or udder of (a female mammal).

Egg

An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.

Milk

To draw or extract a liquid from
Milked the stem for its last drops of sap.

Egg

Synonym of ovum; an egg cell.

Milk

To press out, drain off, or remove (a liquid)
Milk venom from a snake.

Egg

(countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).

Milk

To draw out or extract something from
Milked the witness for information.

Egg

A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.

Milk

To obtain money or benefits from, in order to achieve personal gain; exploit
"The dictator and his cronies had milked their country of somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion" (Russell Watson).

Egg

(architectural element) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.

Milk

To obtain the greatest possible advantage from (a situation).

Egg

A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.

Milk

To get the greatest effect from (a line or scene in a play, for example).

Egg

A bomb or mine.

Milk

To yield or supply milk.

Egg

Senses relating to people.

Milk

To draw milk from a female mammal.

Egg

(archaic) Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.

Milk

(uncountable) A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young. From certain animals, especially cows, it is also called dairy milk and is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt.
Skyr is a product made of curdled milk.

Egg

(computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".

Milk

A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, and/or soy beans.

Egg

(transitive)

Milk

An individual serving of milk.
Table three ordered three milks.

Egg

To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.
The students were caught egging the principal’s car as a prank.

Milk

An individual portion of milk, such as found in a creamer, for tea and coffee.
I take my tea with two milks and two sugars.
I take my tea with two milk and two sugar.

Egg

To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.

Milk

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

Egg

(cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.

Milk

Semen.

Egg

(intransitive) To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.

Milk

(transitive) To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow).
The farmer milked his cows.

Egg

To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).

Milk

To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder.
To milk wholesome milk from healthy cows

Egg

The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

Milk

To secrete (milk) from the breasts or udder.

Egg

A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.

Milk

(transitive) To express a liquid from a creature.
The Australian government has a team that regularly milks various snakes for venom to use creating serums and antivenoms.

Egg

Anything resembling an egg in form.

Milk

To make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, a source of funds, etc.); to exploit; to take advantage of (something).
When the audience began laughing, the comedian milked the joke for more laughs.

Egg

To urge on; to instigate; to incite
Adam and Eve he egged to ill.
[She] did egg him on to tellHow fair she was.

Milk

(of an electrical storage battery) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation.

Egg

Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds

Milk

To single-mindedly masturbate a male to ejaculation, especially for the amusement or satisfaction of the masturbator rather than the person masturbated.
Controlled milking can actually establish and consolidate a mistress’s dominance over her sub rather than diminish it.

Egg

Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food

Milk

A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.

Egg

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens;
She kicked him in the balls and got away

Milk

A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.

Egg

Throw eggs at

Milk

An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

Egg

Coat with beaten egg;
Egg a schnitzel

Milk

The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

Milk

To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
I have given suck, and knowHow tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.

Milk

To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.

Milk

To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

Milk

To draw or to yield milk.

Milk

To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; - said of a storage battery.

Milk

A white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings

Milk

Produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young

Milk

A river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River

Milk

Any of several nutritive milklike liquids

Milk

Take milk from female mammals;
Cows need to be milked every morning

Milk

Exploit as much as possible;
I am milking this for all it's worth

Milk

Add milk to;
Milk the tea

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