(v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.
(n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
(n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
(n.) Nonsense; vain words.
(n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Trump has always seen working people as nothing more than a means to an end: labor to be exploited, customers to be bilked and human capital to be used and then discarded.
(2) In lieu of a picture of Osvaldo bounding around in his billycock, here's some great bowler hats of our time: Charlie Chaplin ... Oscar Wilde ... Mr Acker Bilk, and ... Stan Laurel and Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre.
(3) The Britons being bilked right now possess the character on which this country once prided itself.
(4) It seems less fun to me, but then doubtless someone said the same when HMV's flagship Oxford Street store in London removed its listening booths into which people once crowded to hear the latest from Acker Bilk.
(5) In 1962, Stranger on the Shore [a UK and US hit by jazz clarinetist Acker Bilk] blighted my life.
(6) Shareholders would lose nothing from the little wangle; it was merely the public purse that would be bilked of precious millions.
Milk
Definition:
(n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.
(n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
(n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
(n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
(v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
(v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
(v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
(v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(3) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(4) Four patients with acute brucellosis are described, none of whom had any connexion with farming or milk industry, the source of infection being different in each case.
(5) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(6) In contrast, human breast milk contained substantially increased levels of immunoreactive PTHrP.
(7) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(8) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(9) The presence of BLG in human milk is a common finding in both atopic and non-atopic mothers.
(10) The overall result of this system has been to decrease the coefficients of variation to below 5% for all the milk and serum proteins tested.
(11) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(12) Leukocytes were isolated by centrifugation from milk collected at postinjection hour 16.
(13) Postpartum milk samples from 61 heifers and 24 tissues from 2 reactor cattle were culture-negative for B abortus.
(14) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
(15) Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons are to raise the price they pay their suppliers for milk, bowing to growing pressure from dairy farmers who say the industry is in crisis.
(16) Increasing dietary protein percent raised milk protein percent but not protein yield or yield of other milk components, milk yield, SCM yield, or DM intake.
(17) It was also established that the Y. enterocolitica strains isolated from raw cow milk did not refer to the European serotypes 0:3 and 0:9 that were pathogenic for humans.
(18) The major lipase in human milk is dependent on bile salts for activity and probably participates in intestinal digestion of milk lipids in the newborn.
(19) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(20) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.