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milt-sick

adj
/mɪlt sɪk/

Etymology

From Old English milte seoc, literally, “spleen-sick”. By surface analysis, milt + sick.

  1. derived from milte seoc

Definitions

  1. Having a disease of the spleen.

    • Each buss-master shall diligently attend to the sorting of the fish, by separating the full from the poor ones, and not mixing the sound with the night-refuse, roe-sick, milt-sick, stinking or unsightly herrings; […]
    • Sir,—In the Agricultural Journal of the 16th ult. appears a lengthy letter signed by Mr. Andrew Smith, treating on the symptoms and remedies for Milt-sick Blood-poisoning.

  2. Having anthrax (milt-sickness).

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Derived

milt-sickness

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for milt-sick. 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