cows' milk

English

Noun

cows' milk (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of cow's milk.
   • 1797, Benjamin Rush, Medical Inquiries and Observations, volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Thomas Dobson, […], pages 123–124:

     It is ſeldom in the power of phyſicians to preſcribe aſſes’ or goats’ milk in this diſorder; but a good ſubſtitute may be prepared for them by adding to cows’ milk a little ſugar, and a third or fourth part of water, or of a weak infuſion of green tea.

   • 1890, Robert Meade Smith, The Physiology of the Domestic Animals: A Text-Book for Veterinary and Medical Students and Practitioners, Philadelphia, Pa., London: F[rank] A[llston] Davis, […], page 631:

     Good cows’ milk is white, with a faint yellowish tint, and only bluish when diluted. If a drop of good milk is placed on the thumb-nail it retains its shape instead of spreading gut, as occurs when diluted or unhealthy.

   • c. 1910, Henry St. John Cooper, “The Bulldog”, in Every Woman’s Encyclopædia, volume II, London, page 1174, column 1:

     The patient should be fed entirely on farinaceous and milky food, and if he refuses to eat, milk enriched with one of the dried-milk preparations now so much used, or with good condensed milk—a dessertspoonful of the latter to about half a pint of slightly warmed cows’ milk—should be given, by force if necessary, in small quantities at regular intervals of an hour to two hours.

References

• "cows' milk" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.