Spleen

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A fit of anger; choler.

II. Spleen ·vt To Dislke.

III. Spleen ·noun Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.

IV. Spleen ·noun A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.

V. Spleen ·noun A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.

VI. Spleen ·noun Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.

VII. Spleen ·noun 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.