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(1):

(n.) Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.

(2):

(n.) A fit of anger; choler.

(3):

(n.) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.

(4):

(n.) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.

(5):

(n.) A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.

(6):

(v. t.) To dislke.

(7):

(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.