milkful
English
Adjective
milkful (comparative more milkful, superlative most milkful)
- (archaic, poetic) Full of milk; abounding with food.
- 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:
- milk-full vales
- 1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97:
- The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods.
References
- “milkful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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