Word Meanings - FOREMILK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

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• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.