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発音

• IPA: /mɪlt/
• 韻: -ɪlt

名詞

milt (countable and uncountable, plural milts)

1. (countable) The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     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 […].

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

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

   • 1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life:

     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.

同意語

• (spleen): spleen; lien (uncommon)
• (fish semen): soft roe, white roe

派生語

関連する語

• miltsiekte
• miltz

動詞

milt (third-person singular simple present milts, present participle milting, simple past and past participle milted)

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