goats' milk (uncountable)
- Alternative form of goat's milk.
a. 1838, Robert Nicoll, “Marion Wilson; a Tale of the Persecuting Times”, in [Christian Isobel] Johnstone, editor, The Edinburgh Tales, volume II, Edinburgh: William Tait; London: Chapman and Hall; Dublin: John Cumming, published 1846, page 181, column 2:Happy were they if they got a sheltered glen as a resting-place, and thrice happy if they got a drop of goats’ milk from the solitary mountain shepherd.
1922, R. A. P., “Schultz, E. W., and Chandler, L. R. The acidity of goats’ milk in terms of hydrogen-ion concentration, with comparisons to that of cows and human milk. The size of fat globules in goats’ milk. J. Biol. Chem., 1921, 46, 129.”, in Medical Science Abstracts & Reviews, volume V, London: […] [F]or The Medical Research Council by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, page 179:In the first paper it is reported that goats’ milk is slightly more acid than cows’ milk and considerably more acid than human milk. It appears from the second paper that the fat in goats’ milk is much more finely divided than that of human or cows’ milk. This must mean that unless there is alteration in the size of the globules of fat as they pass through the stomach, goats’ milk is more accessible to the activity of the fat splitting enzyme lipase than the other milks mentioned.
1964, Elma M. Williams, chapter 1, in Bumble: Pig in Paradise, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The John Day Company, published 1965, →LCCN, pages 21–23:As Bumble repeated the demand several times I hastily warmed goats’ milk, filled her bottle and satisfied her. […] I reared her from a day old on goats’ milk and for six months she lived with dogs and cats.
