Lacteal [adjective]

Human milk is sterile when secreted, but derives a few bacteria from the lacteal ducts.

Make an incision in its bark, wherever you will, and it exudes a white lacteal fluid, which hardens on exposure to the air.

The general public subscribes to Mudie, and has its intellectual, like its lacteal sustenance, sent round to it in carts.

I took a seven-year course in the gentle art of acquiring the lacteal fluid.

And there isn't anything I like better when camping out than plenty of hen fruit, together with the lacteal fluid from the cows.

From her bosom issue long lacteal jets that seem, as it were, to crystallise into stars.

Now these lacteal vessels are no doubt absorbent, but are they ever engaged in the absorption of medicinal solutions?

But in another sense they are an exception to it; for they do not pass directly into the veins, but through the lacteal system.

The real nutriment for the body is now contained in the lacteal absorbents, an infinite number of small tubes.

Cows are driven about the streets and milked in front of your own door, when you desire the lacteal fluid.