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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Milk  \Milk\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Milked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Milking}.] 
  1.  To  draw  or  press  milk  from  the  breasts  or  udder  of  by  the 
  hand  or  mouth;  to  withdraw  the  milk  of  ``Milking  the 
  kine.''  --Gay. 
 
  I  have  given  suck,  and  know  How  tender  't  is  to  love 
  the  babe  that  milks  me  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  draw  from  the  breasts  or  udder;  to  extract,  as  milk; 
  as  to  milk  wholesome  milk  from  healthy  cows. 
 
  3.  To  draw  anything  from  as  if  by  milking;  to  compel  to 
  yield  profit  or  advantage;  to  plunder.  --Tyndale. 
 
  They  [the  lawyers]  milk  an  unfortunate  estate  as 
  regularly  as  a  dairyman  does  his  stock.  --London 
  Spectator. 
 
  {To  milk  the  street},  to  squeeze  the  smaller  operators  in 
  stocks  and  extract  a  profit  from  them  by  alternately 
  raising  and  depressing  prices  within  a  short  range;  -- 
  said  of  the  large  dealers.  [Cant] 
 
  {To  milk  a  telegram},  to  use  for  one's  own  advantage  the 
  contents  of  a  telegram  belonging  to  another  person.  [Cant] 




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