An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

MILDROP, s.
1. The mucus flowing from the nose in a liquid state; meldrop, South of S.
Henrysone.
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 principal 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 superstitious 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.