milt-pain

plural milt-pains

1. obsoleteA disease in hogs.

   Milt-pain is a Disease in Hogs, proceeding from greediness of eating Mast.

   1888, James Augustus Henry Murray (editor), A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, Volume 6, Issue 2, page 452

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   For milt pain; pound green sallow rind, seethe in honey alone, give the man to eat three pieces at night fasting.

   1858, Great Britain, Public Record Office, Rerum Britannicarum Medii aevi scriptores; or Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, Volume 35, Issue 2, page 319

   it thinneth the corrupt gastric juices, it doth away hreakings, and breast disease, and side pain, and liver disorder, and loin pain, and milt pain: all that it lighteneth

   1865, Oswald Cockayne (editor), Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, Being a Collection of Documents for the Most Part Never Before Printed, Illustrating the History of Science in this Country Before the Norman Conquest, Volume 2, page 257