LekhoriLekhoriIn vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
A bad mood; spitefulness. .
In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways. Brief as the lightning in the collied night; That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth
To dislike.
T. Wentworth ſpleen'd the Bishop
To annoy or irritate.
There had been a good deal of provocation, we have no doubt, before the republican simplicity, at which Mrs Trollope seems to have been so justly offended, was spleened into speaking of the old woman.
From Middle English splene, splen, from Anglo-Norman espleen and Old French esplein, esplen, from Latin splēn (“milt”), from Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “the spleen”). Doublet of lien. Partially displ...
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To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
It was satisfactory to a majority of the bolters, but most of the democrats spleened against him.