Meanings
comparative more milkful · superlative most milkful
- archaicpoeticFull of milk; abounding with food.
milk-full vales
1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC1 more example
The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods.
1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97
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