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countable and uncountable, plural milts
(countable) The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. quotations examples
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 […]
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
The semen of a male fish. examples
The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish examples
third-person singular simple present milts, present participle milting, simple past and past participle milted
(transitive) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt. examples