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.
Derived terms
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Related terms
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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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millet English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m); ultimately from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
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Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
Hyponyms
* (food grains)
Coordinate terms
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Derived terms
* barnyard millet
* broom corn millet
* browntop millet
* common millet
* finger millet
* foxtail millet
* Guinea millet
* hog millet
* Japanese millet
* kodo millet
* little millet
* milletgrass, millet grass
* pearl millet
* proso millet
* white millet
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
(historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
* 2007 , Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain , Hurst & Co. 2007, page 14 :
- in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, page 262:
- Christians and Jews as People of the Book were organized into separate communities, or millets , defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.
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