spleenish
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a word derived from
spleen.
spleennouna highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
Example Sentences
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Yet Sher Afghán is a proper man, a finer fellow by half than the spleenish Jahangir!”
From The Great Mogul by Louis Tracy
Spleen′ishness, the state of being spleenish; Spleen′-stone, jade or nephrite; Spleen′wort, any fern of the genus Asplenium.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various