cows' milk

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English

Noun

cows' milk (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of cow's milk.
    • 1797, Benjamin Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations, volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Thomas Dobson, , pages 123–124:
      It is ſeldom in the power of phyſicians to preſcribe aſſes’ or goats’ milk in this diſorder; but a good ſubſtitute may be prepared for them by adding to cows’ milk a little ſugar, and a third or fourth part of water, or of a weak infuſion of green tea.
    • 1890, Robert Meade Smith, The Physiology of the Domestic Animals: A Text-Book for Veterinary and Medical Students and Practitioners, Philadelphia, Pa., London: F A Davis, , page 631:
      Good cows’ milk is white, with a faint yellowish tint, and only bluish when diluted. If a drop of good milk is placed on the thumb-nail it retains its shape instead of spreading gut, as occurs when diluted or unhealthy.
    • c. 1910, Henry St. John Cooper, “The Bulldog”, in Every Woman’s Encyclopædia, volume II, London, page 1174, column 1:
      The patient should be fed entirely on farinaceous and milky food, and if he refuses to eat, milk enriched with one of the dried-milk preparations now so much used, or with good condensed milk—a dessertspoonful of the latter to about half a pint of slightly warmed cows’ milk—should be given, by force if necessary, in small quantities at regular intervals of an hour to two hours.

References

  • "cows' milk" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.