Milt vs Lilt - What's the difference?
milt | lilt |
The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
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* 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
Fish semen.
To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
* Tennyson
Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
*:Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt , he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
As nouns the difference between milt and lilt
is that milt is the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food while lilt is animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.As verbs the difference between milt and lilt
is that milt is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt while lilt is to do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.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 roelilt
English
Verb
(en verb)- (Wordsworth)
- A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, / With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out / By violet-hooded doctors.
