- (n.) A fit of anger; choler.
- (n.) A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
- (n.) Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
- (n.) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.t.) To dislke.
- (n.) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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