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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Milt" Quotes from Famous Books



... Helge, men endast fast! 14 Det svrd, som bitar skarpast, r bjligast. Milt sinne pryder kungen, som blommor sklden, och vrdag bringar mera ...
— Fritiofs Saga • Esaias Tegner

... At this humble level the sexes are in many cases very like one another, and there is, as we should expect, a good deal of haphazard in the production of offspring. Among fishes, for instance, the eggs and sperms are liberated into the sea, or the shallow bed of a river, and, if the sperms (the milt of the males) are placed near to the spot where the eggs (the spawn) have been laid, fertilisation occurs, for within a short distance the sperms are attracted—in a way that is imperfectly understood—to enter the eggs. By this method there is of necessity ...
— The Truth About Woman • C. Gasquoine Hartley

... prepared to write an essay on Tzimmus as a gastronomic ideal. There were other pleasing Polish combinations which were baked for twopence by the local bakers. Tabechas, or stuffed entrails, and liver, lights or milt were good substitutes for meat. A favorite soup was Borsch, which was made with beet-root, fat taking the place of the more ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... thou proove that to bee a fishe that was not bredd in the water, that coold never swimme, that hathe neather roe nor milt, scale nor finne, lyfe nor motion? Did ever man heare of a fishe cald a budgett? ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen



Words linked to "Milt" :   seed, ejaculate, fish, come, semen, seafood



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