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miltsick

miltsick is the alternative 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 miltsick

What is miltsick the alternative form of?
Miltsick is the alternative form of milt-sick.

Words near miltsick in the dictionary

  1. Miltonvale Park
  2. Miltos
  3. Miltown
  4. Miltowns
  5. milts
  6. miltsick
  7. miltsiekte
  8. miltwaste
  9. miltwastes
  10. miltwort
  11. milty

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