spleen Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
lien.
noun a feeling of resentful anger
irascibility; quick temper; short temper.

L. splen, Gr. the milt or spleen, affection of the spleen; cf. L. lien, plihan, plihan.

(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.
Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
In noble minds some dregs remain, Not yet purged off, of spleen and sour disdain. Pope.
A fit of anger; choler. Shak.
A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim. Obs. or R.
A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways. Shak.
Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
Bodies changed to various forms by spleen. Pope.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise: And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Wordsworth.
A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment. Obs.
Thy silly thought enforces my spleen. Shak.