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Milt vs Gilt - What's the difference?

milt | gilt |

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)
  • 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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    Synonyms

    * (fish semen) soft roe, white roe

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
  • gilt

    English

    Etymology 1

    Cf. gold and German Geld

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Golden coloured.
  • *, chapter=10
  • , title= 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.}}

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (gild)
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