/spliːn/ · noun
(anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes..
In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
Too many, however, who might take an honourable stand, fear the petty spleen of the plantocracy; preferring the most disgusting adulation, to the blessing of him ready to perish.
The name I like best, however, I heard uttered by the Eldest Son of the House of Chou, who in a moment of spleen referred to his colleague of the House of Liang as hsiao chu-tan, the Little Pig’s Egg.
Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches and levered herself upright after an ungainly struggle.
A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways. Brief as the lightning in the collied night; That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and Earth
Bodies changed to various forms by spleen.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise: / And inward self-disparagement affords / To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
By virtue, thou enforcest laughter ; thy silly thought, my spleen
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Spleen means (anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes..
Common synonyms include lien, milt, irascibility, short temper.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In noble minds some dregs remain, / Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain.
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