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milt-pain en · NOUN

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1. (obsolete) A disease in hogs.
   • For milt pain; pound green sallow rind, seethe in honey alone, give the man to eat three pieces at night fasting. 1858, Great Britain, Public Record Office, Rerum Britannicarum Medii aevi scriptores; or Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, Volume 35, Issue 2, page 319:
   • it thinneth the corrupt gastric juices, it doth away hreakings, and breast disease, and side pain, and liver disorder, and loin pain, and milt pain: all that it lighteneth 1865, Oswald Cockayne (editor), Leechdoms, Wortcunning and Starcraft of Early England, Being a Collection of Documents for the Most Part Never Before Printed, Illustrating the History of Science in this Country Before the Norman Conquest, Volume 2, page 257:
   • Milt-pain is a Disease in Hogs, proceeding from greediness of eating Mast. 1888, James Augustus Henry Murray (editor), A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, Volume 6, Issue 2, page 452:

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