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Milt

//mɪlt//

Definitions

1
The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt, another in the braine[…].
Similar
spleen lien
2
The semen of a male fish.
Similar
soft roe white roe
3
The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish.

1
To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Word Origin

From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat...

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