milky

adjective7

1. •
   pale white in color and often not clear enough to see through

   • his sword, / Which was declining on the milky head / Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick: […] — 1599
2. •
   (of a plant or grain) full of a white juice

   • Shot up from broad rank blades that droop below, / The nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow, / With milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down, / Ere yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown; […] — 1800
3. •
   (informal) dark gray instead of fully black, said of the black areas of a picture or screen
4. •
   Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.

   • Mrs. Anthony, their daily housekeeper, brought in the milky coffee and placed it on the breakfast table. — 1959
5. •
   (informal) behaving or thinking like a small child instead of like an adult

   • Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred / From milkie Childhood to the years of bloud! — 1651
6. •
   (informal) easily frightened and without the courage to face danger

   • Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? — 1605
7. •
   (no longer used) Producing milk, lactating.

   • As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine / An heard of Bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, / Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, / And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing, — 1590