• IPA: /mɪlt/

milt (plural milts)

1. The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     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.

2. The semen of a male fish.

• (spleen) spleen; lien (uncommon)
• (fish semen) soft roe, white roe

• miltsiekte
• miltz

• French: laite, laitance
• German: Milch, Fischmilch
• Portuguese: leita, láctea
• Russian: моло́ка
• Spanish: lecha

milt (milts, present participle milting; past and past participle milted)

1. (transitive) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.