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Milt   /mɪlt/   Listen
noun
Milt  n.  (Anat.) The spleen.



Milt  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
The spermatic fluid of fishes.
(b)
The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.



verb
Milt  v. t.  To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.






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"Milt" Quotes from Famous Books



... hurry her little Brood to the Front Window when Milt or Henry passed by, carrying under his arm a Package of Corn Flakes and the Report of the General Secretary in charge ...
— Knocking the Neighbors • George Ade

... it's all right!" he began to yell, some distance away. "It's all right! It's on'y ol' Milt' Jacoby!" ...
— The Little Regiment - And Other Episodes of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane

... Milt Dale, man of the forest, halted at the edge of a timbered ridge, to listen and to watch. Beneath him lay a narrow valley, open and grassy, from which rose a faint murmur of running water. Its music was pierced by the wild staccato yelp of a hunting coyote. From overhead in the giant fir came ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey

... there and get back, and take a lunch to eat on the way. I suppose I had heard as much about Bobtown as any place in the world, but never seen it. It was just in a straight line from the porch at grandpa's, past Spotty Milt Stith's place, and just in the place between the woods and where the sky came down beyond. So the next mornin' we was off—grandpa and ma settin' in the front seat of the carriage; and me, grandma and Myrtle ...
— Mitch Miller • Edgar Lee Masters

... together. In this position they moved around over the pebbly bottom. The female was discharging her multitudinous and very small eggs, so that they dropped to the bottom of the nest. At the same time the male was expelling what in fish is known as the milt. In this milt are the sperm cells of the male, each consisting of a rounded head and a very slender body. These are attracted by the eggs. Pushing up against them, the head of a sperm cell, consisting almost entirely ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker


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