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Milk Sickness

Definition: Milk Sickness

Milk Sickness

Noun

1. Disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.

2. Caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Milk Sickness

Synonym: trembles (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Milk Sickness

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disease

Anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter; cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Milk Sickness

English words defined with "milk sickness": Ageratina altissimaEupatorium rugosumSlowswhite sanicle, white snakeroot. (references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Milk Sickness

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

euphorbia tirucalli. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Milk Sickness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-k-k-l-m-n-s-s-s"

-2 letters: sickliness.

-3 letters: milkiness, silkiness, slickness, sliminess.

-4 letters: ickiness, kinesics, lemnisci, liminess, miskicks, mislikes, missiles, scissile, sicklies, sickness, skinless, skinlike, slimness.

-5 letters: cissies, iciness, incises, inkless, inklike, kinesic, kinesis, menisci, mickles, miskick, mislies, mislike, missels, missies, missile, nickels, nickles, seisins, seismic, sickens, sickies, sickles, silkies, similes, simlins, simnels, sinless, siskins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Milk Sickness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 6C 6B      53 69 63 6B 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01101100 01101011 00100000 01010011 01101001 01100011 01101011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#108 &#107 &#32 &#83 &#105 &#99 &#107 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 006C 006B      0053 0069 0063 006B 006E 0065 0073 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4775787725375697780718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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