Milt vs Gilt - What's the difference?
milt | gilt |
The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
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Fish semen.
(uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
(uncountable, slang) Money.
(countable, finance) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged)
Golden coloured.
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As nouns the difference between milt and gilt
is that milt is the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food while gilt is (uncountable) gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding or gilt can be a young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.As verbs the difference between milt and gilt
is that milt is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt while gilt is (gild).As an adjective gilt is
golden coloured.milt
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
Derived terms
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* (fish semen) soft roe, white roegilt
English
Etymology 1
Cf. gold and German GeldNoun
(en-noun)Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=The Jones man was looking at her hard. Now he reached into the hatch of his vest and fetched out a couple of cigars, everlasting big ones, with gilt bands on them.}}