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milt-pain

milt-pain noun: a disease in hogs.

Noun

milt-pain (plural milt-pains)

  1. (obsolete) A disease in hogs.
    • For milt pain; pound green sallow rind, seethe in honey alone, give the man to eat three pieces at night fasting.1858, Great Britain, Public Record Office, Rerum Britannicarum Medii aevi scriptores; or Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, Volume 35, Issue 2, page 319
    • it thinneth the corrupt gastric juices, it doth away hreakings, and breast disease, and side pain, and liver disorder, and loin pain, and milt pain: all that it lighteneth1865, Oswald Cockayne (editor), Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, Being a Collection of Documents for the Most Part Never Before Printed, Illustrating the History of Science in...

Forms of milt-pain

pluralmilt-pains

Questions about milt-pain

What does milt-pain mean?
Milt-pain means a disease in hogs.
What part of speech is milt-pain?
Milt-pain is a noun.
What is the plural of milt-pain?
The plural of milt-pain is milt-pains.

Words near milt-pain in the dictionary

  1. milsurp
  2. milsurps
  3. milt
  4. milt-grown
  5. milt-like
  6. milt-pain
  7. milt-pains
  8. milt-sick
  9. milt-sickness
  10. milt-wort
  11. milted

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