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Milt vs Malt - What's the difference?

milt | malt |

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)
  • 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.
  • malt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
  • Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
  • * 1896 , , A Shropshire Lad , LXII:
  • 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.
  • (US) Short for "malted milk shake", a milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor
  • Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.
  • Derived terms

    * maltose * malty * malt liquor * single malt * double malt * triple malt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
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