chyle

Definitions

A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 524, It is said that when the tidings were brought him, he was ashore sitting beneath a hemlock eating his dinner of venison - and as the tidings were told him, after the first start⟳ he kept on eating, but slowly and deliberately, chewing the wild news with the wild meat, as if both together, turned to chyle, together should sinew him to his intent.”

“And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have⟳ to feed⟳ it like⟳ stoking an engine.”

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