An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 546

2. The foam which falls from a horse's 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 one's 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.

MILLER'S 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._