Usually means: Lacking courage, weak, faint-hearted.
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  1. milk-livered: Merriam-Webster
  2. milk-livered: Wordnik
  3. milk-livered: Wiktionary
  4. milk-livered: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Milk-livered: Dictionary.com
  6. milk-livered: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Milk-livered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. milk-livered: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Milk-livered: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Milk-livered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

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adjective:  (archaic) cowardly; timorous; lacking bravery

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