milt noun & verb. [mɪlt] As noun also melt [mɛlt].
[Old English milt(e, corresp. to Old Frisian, Middle Dutch milte (Dutch milt), Old High German milzi (German Milz), Old Norse milti, from Germanic, perh. rel. to base of MELT verb.]
A. noun.
1. The spleen (now chiefly, that of a domestic animal). OE.

2. The semen of a male fish; the testes of a male fish. L15.

Comb.:
miltwaste (now rare or obsolete) the rustyback fern, Ceterach officinarum.
b. verb trans. & intrans. Of a male fish: fertilize with or emit milt. rare. L17.

■ milter noun a male fish, esp. in spawning time E17.

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