adjective
definition
(of a cow, animal, etc.) Giving milk; in note
definition
Tender; pitiful; weeping.
Examples of milch in a Sentence
Even the pharmaceutical industry is not the milch cow that publishers might think us to be.
In the same year, according to the same authority, there were in the state 196,000 milch cows, 92,000 other neat cattle, 45, 000 sheep and 70,000 swine.
In 1910 there were 495,000 neat cattle (285,000 milch cows), 94,000 horses (average value, $106), 229,000 sheep and 95,000 swine.
The relation between ants and aphids has often been compared to that between men and milch cattle.
In 1900 there were 868,832 and in 1910 947, 000 milch cows in the state.
Although used in the early days to a limited extent as a food for milch cows and other stock, and to a larger extent as a manure, no systematic efforts were made anywhere in the South to manufacture the seed until the later 'fifties, when the first cotton seed mills were established.
The censuses from 1860 to 1900 showed a far greater number of neat cattle on farms and ranges in Texas than in any other state or Territory; in 1900 the number was 7, 2 79,935 (excluding spring calves); and in 1910 there were 8,308,000 neat cattle including 1,137,000 milch cows.
In 1909 the number of sheep in Montana was 5,747,000, being exceeded only by the number in Wyoming; the number of cattle was 922,000, only 80,00o being milch cows, and the number of horses 319,000.
The total number of neat cattle on farms and ranges in 1910 was 986,000 (including 27,000 milch cows) valued at $26,277,000; horses, 148,000, valued at $12,284,000; 1 mules, 2000, valued at $212,000; and swine, 21,000, valued at $178,000.
In 1910, out of a total of 2,587,000 neat cattle, there were 1,506,000 milch cows.
Milch was not ruthless enough, or concerned enough with his own glory, to make a successful gladiator in that contest.