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  • 31white hellebore — Indian In di*an (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus, the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu, name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus. Cf. {Hindu}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of or pertaining to India… …

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  • 32white — adj 1. snowy, snow white, niveous, ivory, creamy; milky, milk white, opalescent, opaline, pearly, nacreous; marble, marmoreal; chalky, chalk white, cretaceous; whitish, albescent; white hot, candent. 2. light skinned, Caucasoid, Caucasian. 3.… …

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  • 33white — adjective 1) a clean white bandage Syn: colorless, unpigmented, bleached, natural; snowy, milky, chalky, ivory 2) her face was white with fear Syn: pale, pallid, wan, ashen …

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  • 34milky — adj 1. lacteal, lactic, milk, milch; lactescent, lactiferous, emulsive. 2. white, creamy, pearly, nacreous, chalky, cretaceous; cloudy, opaque, fume , frosted, semipellucid, mat; whitish, albescent, adularescent, canescent; snowy, niveous, hoar,… …

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  • 35milky — adj. Milky is used with these nouns: ↑coffee, ↑complexion, ↑drink, ↑skin, ↑tea, ↑white …

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  • 36Milky Way — noun the Milky Way the pale white band of stars that can be seen across the sky at night …

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  • 37milky — [ˈmɪlki] adj 1) containing milk or a liquid that looks like milk milky drinks[/ex] 2) white like milk …

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  • 38milky — /ˈmɪlki/ (say milkee) adjective (milkier, milkiest) 1. resembling milk in colour or consistency. 2. of a chalky white. 3. giving a good supply of milk. 4. filled with or yielding any substance resembling milk: dandelions are milky weeds. 5. meek …

  • 39milky — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. lacteal; white, pale, chalky; spiritless, timorous. See color, fear. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. opaque, pearly, cloudy; see white 1 …

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  • 40milky — milkily, adv. milkiness, n. /mil kee/, adj., milkier, milkiest. 1. of or like milk, esp. in appearance or consistency. 2. white or whitish in color. 3. giving a good supply of milk. 4. meek, tame, timid, or spiritless. [1350 1400; ME; see MILK,… …

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