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milt

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8
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/mɪlt/

Definition of milt

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable)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[…].”
    “Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall.”
    “Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.”
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noun

  1. (countable)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[…].”
    “Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall.”
    “Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)The semen of a male fish.
  3. (countable, uncountable)The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish.

verb

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

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Etymology

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, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.

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