milt

plural milts

1. countableThe spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

   Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall.

   1668, ‘Godfridus’, The Knowledge of Things Unknown, London: G.P. for G. Sawbridge, page 19

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   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[…].

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

   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.

   1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life

   Synonyms: spleen, lien

2. countableuncountableThe semen of a male fish.

   Synonyms: soft roe, white roe

3. countableuncountableThe engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish.

present singular third person milts · participle present milting · participle past milted · past milted

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