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melt-sick

melt-sick is the dated form of milt-sick.

Meaning of milt-sick

Adjective

milt-sick

  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; […]1807 [1783], Transactions, volume 25, Royal Society of Arts, Colonies and Trade, page 171
  2. (South Africa) Having anthrax (milt-sickness).

Questions about melt-sick

What is melt-sick the dated form of?
Melt-sick is the dated form of milt-sick.

Words near melt-sick in the dictionary

  1. melt ponds
  2. melt sandwich
  3. melt sandwiches
  4. melt someone's butter
  5. melt up
  6. melt-sick
  7. melt-up
  8. melt-ups
  9. meltabilities
  10. meltability
  11. meltable

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