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One who eats, or subsists on, milk.
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Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.
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Increasing the flow of milk; milk-producing. -- n. A galactopoietic substance.
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A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).
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A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.
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The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.
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A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold.
The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.
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Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.
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The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars.
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A splendid assemblage of persons or things.
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A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.
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A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
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A moderate current of air; a breeze.