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mulgere [CL] 1 to milk (animal); b (fig.). oves vitulasque ~ere Bede HA 8; ubera [vacce] pre lactis copia ~enda R. Cold. Godr. 113; ~eatur [animal] et exhibeatur statim quia lac citissime corrumpitur J. Mirfield Brev. 80; ipse [sc. presul] gregis loculos mulget trahit in tribulosque / cause quo lana vulsa manebit ei Gower VC III 195. 2 to extract (milk); b (fig., w. ref. to illicit gain or sim.). quod infantes ab his hominibus ac feris in mari progenitos lactis ~endi gratia cum conchis natare per undas putabant Lib. Monstr. II 32; vas in quo ~etur lac GlP 154n (v. mulctra 1); multrum ‥ pro vasis in quibus ~emus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 357; in hieme est calida velut lac mulsum W. Worc. Itin. 68. b nam lesurus lenit / et mulcet, ut mulgeat P. Blois Carm. 25. 15. 88. 3 to nurture with milk, breast-feed. postquam Domina beata hominem mulsit W. Malm. Mir. Mariae 136. 4 to squeeze (in quot., w. ref. to torture). dehinc et [juvenibus] inundato tractis e carcere, nervo / undique nodoso, stringit inane caput; / quod primum mulgendo trahit baculoque deinde / invertendo rotans, in caput ire facit L. Durh. Dial. II 315. 5 (p. ppl. as sb. n.) whey. mulsum, A. wei (gl.) Teaching Latin II 31; mulsum, A. the wyte of botyr WW; quay, mulsum, serum CathA.

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