Mist vs Milt - What's the difference?
mist | milt |
(uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
(countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
(figurative) Anything that dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
* Dryden
To form mist.
To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
To cover with a mist.
(of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
*, II.12:
* 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
Fish semen.
As nouns the difference between mist and milt
is that mist is water or other liquid finely suspended in air while milt is the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.As verbs the difference between mist and milt
is that mist is to form mist while milt is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.mist
English
(wikipedia mist)Noun
- It was difficult to see through the morning mist .
- There was an oily mist on the lens .
- His passion cast a mist before his sense.
Derived terms
* misty * mists of time * red mistVerb
(en verb)- It's misting this morning.
- I mist my tropical plants every morning.
- The lens was misted .
- (Shakespeare)
- My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
Derived terms
* mist overAnagrams
* * ----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.