Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Sweetbread

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Sweetbread


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(1):

(n.) The pancreas.

(2):

(n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.