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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.

Deprived of the spleen.

Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson.

Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. -- Spleen"ish*ly, adv. -- Spleen"ish*ness, n.

Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. [Obs.] Chapman.

nus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen.

Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak.

Deprived of a spleen.

rns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. Dryden. Ague cake, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. -- Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. -- Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so calle…

which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.

To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. He . . . froths treason at his mouth. Dryden. Is your spleen frothed out, or have ye more Tennyson.

Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenic ligament.

Bloodforming; as, the hæmapoietic function of the spleen.

blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.

by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid. (CH3)2CH.CH2.CH(NH2)-COOH. L-leucine, the natural form, is present in most proteins.

corpuscles of the blood are largely increased in number, and there is enlargement of the spleen, or the lymphatic glands; leuchæmia.

Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic.

One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.