n. [ F. baleine whale and whalebone, L. balaena a whale; cf. Gr. fa`laina. ] (Zool. & Com.) Plates or blades of “whalebone, ” from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. cailin. ] A girl; a maiden. [ Anglo-Irish ]

Of all the colleens in the land
Sweet Mollie is the daisy. The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. Obs. pl. of Flea. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Glance, Glint. ] To glisten; to gleam. [ Obs. ] Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. kleen little, small + bok buck. ] (Zool.) An antelope (Cerphalopus pygmæus), found in South Africa. It is of very small size, being but one foot high at the shoulder. It is remarkable for its activity, and for its mild and timid disposition. Called also guevi, and pygmy antelope. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ Trademark ] A piece of soft absorbent tissue paper (usually two or more thin layers) used as a disposable handkerchief; -- still a current trademark, but often used generically. [ Trademark ]
Syn. -- tissue. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A small rock-inhabiting fern (Asplenium trichomanes) of the North temperate zone and Hawaii, having pinnate fronds. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The more primitive parts of the brain phylogenetically; it includes most structures other than the cerebral cortex.
Syn. -- paleoencephalon, palaeoencephalon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. splen, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; the milt or spleen, affection of the spleen; cf. L. lien, plihan, plīhan. ] 1. (Anat.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen. [ 1913 Webster ]

In noble minds some dregs remain,
Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A fit of anger; choler. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bodies changed to various forms by spleen. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a luxury in self-dispraise:
And inward self-disparagement affords
To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy silly thought enforces my spleen. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dislke. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Deprived of the spleen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Angered; annoyed. [ Obs. ] R. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet,
Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. -- Spleen"ish*ly, adv. -- Spleen"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Spleen + wort; cf. L. splenium, asplenium, Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. ] (Bot.) Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to
Our cause. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ 1st pref. un- + spleen. ] Deprived of a spleen. [ 1913 Webster ]