Milt vs Malt - What's the difference?
milt | malt |
The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
*, II.12:
* 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
Fish semen.
grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
* 1896 , , A Shropshire Lad , LXII:
(US) Short for "malted milk shake", a milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor
Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
As verbs the difference between milt and malt
is that milt is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt while malt is .As a noun milt
is the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.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 roemalt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Oh many a peer of England brews
- Livelier liquor than the Muse,
- And malt does more than Milton can
- To justify God's ways to man.