milt English
Noun
( en noun)
The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
*, II.12:
- 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.
* 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
- Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.
Fish semen.
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Synonyms
* (fish semen) soft roe, white roe
Verb
( en verb)
To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
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kilt Alternative forms
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Verb
( en verb)
To gather up (skirts) around the body.
* 1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 385:
- Else at her new place worked outdoor and indoor, she'd to kilt' her skirts (if they needed ' kilting – and that was damned little with those short-like frocks) and go out and help at the spreading of dung […].
Noun
(kilts)
A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.
(historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid;
A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wrap around, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also used as boys' wear in 19th century USA.
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, passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts . But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.
Synonyms
* filibeg, philibeg
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