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milkful en · ADJ

Etymology

From milk + -ful.

Meanings

1. (archaic, poetic) Full of milk; abounding with food.
   • milk-full vales 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
   • The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods. 1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97:

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