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milt

noun
/mɪlt/

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.

  1. inherited from *(s)meld-✻
  2. inherited from *meltǭ✻
  3. inherited from *miltijā✻
  4. inherited from milte
  5. inherited from milte

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[…].
    • 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. The semen of a male fish.

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

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

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

The neighborhood

Derived

milter, milt-grown, milting, milt-like, milt-pain, milt-sick, milt-sickness, milt-vein, miltwaste, milt-wort, milty

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for milt. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA