Full of spleen; spiteful.

A quantity of invective. / More than one can take.

(obsolete, transitive) To dislike. / To annoy or irritate. / (transitive, intransitive) To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen. / To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.

(anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.

plural of spleen

present participle of spleen

(obsolete) Deprived of the spleen. / angry; annoyed. / Having splines or ridges.

simple past tense and past participle of spleen

(pathology) amyloidosis of the spleen

(pathology) A birth defect due to the absence of one of the ligaments that holds the spleen in place