MILKILY

Etymology

Adverb

milkily (comparative more milkily, superlative most milkily)

In the manner of milk

The fog flowed milkily along the valley.

Source: Wiktionary


Milk"i*ly, adv.

Definition: In a milky manner.

MILKY

Milk"y, a.

1. Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.

2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot.

3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon.

4. Mild; tame; spiritless. Has friendship such a faint and milky heart Shak. Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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