a. [f. as prec. + -AN.] † a. = LACTEAL a. 1 b (obs.). b. = LACTEAL a. 2. (In mod. Dicts.)
1659. Moxon, Tutor Astron., I. 25. Blaeu saith, This Lactean whiteness and clearness ariseth from a great number of little stars, constipated in that part of Heaven.
