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(dated, of a cow or other livestock) Used to produce milk; dairy. examples
(dated, of a mammal) Currently producing milk for its offspring. quotations examples
She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace / Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache / Hasting to feed her fawn, hid in some break.The spelling has been modernized.
1593, 1896
you must house your Milch-cows
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708
(obsolete) Tender; pitiful; weeping.