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.
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
27 March 2025
(noun) an event that accomplishes its intended purpose; “let’s call heads a success and tails a failure”; “the election was a remarkable success for the Whigs”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
