Word Definition

Spleen

  1. To dislke.
  2. A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
  3. A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
  4. A fit of anger; choler.
  5. Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
  6. Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
  7. 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.

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