Category:Spleen

Spleen, n. Etym: [l. splen, gr. lien, plihan, plihan.]

1. (anat.)

Defn: a peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach Or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular System; the milt. Its exact function in not known.

2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen. In noble minds some dregs remain, not yet purged off, of spleen and Sour disdain. Pope.

3. A fit of anger; choler. Shak.

4. A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim. [obs. or r.] A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways. Shak.

5. Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections. Bodies changed to various forms by spleen. Pope. There is a luxury in self-dispraise: and inward self-disparagement Affords to meditative spleen a grateful feast. Wordsworth.

6. A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment. [obs.] Thy silly thought enforces my spleen. Shak.

Spleen Spleen, v. t.

Defn: to dislke. [obs.] Bp. Hacket.