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milt

/mɪlt/

milt noun: the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

Noun

milt (countable and uncountable, plural milts)

  1. (countable) 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[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall.1668, ‘Godfridus’, The Knowledge of Things Unknown, London: G.P. for G. Sawbridge, page 19
    Synonyms:
    spleen, lien
  2. The semen of a male fish.
    Synonyms:
    soft roe, white roe
  3. The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish.

Verb

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.

milt meaning in Tamil

milt in Tamil

ஆண்மீனின் தாது, மீன் விந்து

Synonyms of milt

Forms of milt

Noun
pluralmilts
Verb
third-person singular presentmilts
present participlemilting
past participlemilted
pastmilted

Origin of milt

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.

Words formed from milt

Words that rhyme with milt

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Questions about milt

What does milt mean?
Milt means the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
What is milt in Tamil?
Milt in Tamil is ஆண்மீனின் தாது, மீன் விந்து. See Milt meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is milt?
Milt can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce milt?
Milt is pronounced /mɪlt/.
What is the plural of milt?
The plural of milt is milts.

Words near milt in the dictionary

  1. Milsteads
  2. Milstein
  3. Milsteins
  4. milsurp
  5. milsurps
  6. milt
  7. milt-grown
  8. milt-like
  9. milt-pain
  10. milt-pains
  11. milt-sick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: milt (page history and authors); milt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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