Word Meanings - INCHPIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The sweetbread of a deer. Cotgrave. (more info) Etym:

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• SWEETBREAD
  The pancreas. (more info) 1. Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and