Words: express, v.

Christopher Hawtree
Wednesday 03 March 1999 00:02 GMT
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NO SOONER had I bought a six-pack of apple-juice than I learned that I might have need of a bra - for myself. This is not transvestism, not even mere hypochondria. It is little reported that chemicals from the print upon cartons seeps into the liquid and creates female hormones (just as mogadon survives in the water system).

It is an unfortunate situation - and makes express becomes doubly useful. Bacon said, "among the wat'ry juices of fruit are all the fruits out of which drink is expressed; as the grape, and the apple".

Since then, the usage has been more specific, as in Carter and Dodds's Dictionary of Midwifery: "The patient should be taught how to express secretion from the nipple so that the milk may be able to flow freely later on."

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