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milk sickness

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noun

Say it like: Mil-k s-ikn-ess

The correct spelling is milk sickness. A condition, with trembling and vomiting, caused by ingestion of milk, meat, etc. from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot, which contains the poison tremetol.

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  1. 1.A condition, with trembling and vomiting, caused by ingestion of milk, meat, etc. from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot, which contains the poison tremetol.

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