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milter

[ mil-ter ]

noun

  1. a male fish in breeding time.


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noun

  1. a male fish that is mature and ready to breed
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of milter1

First recorded in 1595–1605; milt + -er 1
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Nay, did he not in all cases, though fonder of roe-fishes himself, order a milter to be drawn from the herring-barrel, because his good-wife liked it better?—

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Nay, did he not in all cases, though fonder of roe-fishes himself, order a milter to be drawn from the herring-barrel, because his good-wife liked it better?--

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Consequently, Milter insists that he will sign no contract unless it contains a clause granting each U.M.W. local the Bright, by majority vote, to strike over local issues.

Despite the weakening of the last 100 pages, the adolescent anguish of Sheilah Milter is so acutely albeit theatrically probed, that Conflict is undeniably a powerful successor to Author Prouty's famed novel, later cinema, Stella Dallas.

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