a. rare. [f. SPLEEN sb.]

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  1.  Destitute of a spleen.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xx. (Bodl. MS.). Camelion is … spleneles and woneþ in dennes as an ewte.

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1899.  Brit. Med. Jrnl., 2 Dec., 1567. Max Malener may claim, it appears, the first operation on a spleenless patient.

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  2.  fig. Mild, gentle.

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1615.  Chapman, Odyss., XII. 347. A spleenelesse wind so stretcht Her wings to waft vs, and so vrg’d our keele.

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