From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.
Pails high foaming with a milky flood. --Pope.
2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. ''Milky juice.'' --Arbuthnot.
3. Yielding milk. ''Milky mothers.'' --Roscommon.
4. Mild; tame; spiritless.
Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? --Shak.
{Milky Way}. (Astron.) See {Galaxy}, 1.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear; "milky glass" [syn: {milklike}, {whitish}] [also: {milkiest}, {milkier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "milky": argent, argentine, bland, canescent, chalky, changeable, cretaceous, fleecy-white, frosted, frosty, grizzled, grizzly, halfhearted, hoar, hoary, indecisive, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irresolute, lacteal, lacteous, lactescent, lactic, lactiferous, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, milch, milk, milk-and-water, mushy, neutral, niveous, platinum, pure white, silver, silvered, silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, tasteless, vapid, watery, white, white as snow, wishy-washy
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