subs. (venery).—The semen. For synonyms, see CREAM and SPENDINGS. METTLED = amorous.

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  1612.  FIELD, A Woman is a Weathercock, i. 2. What a sin were it in me … to marry a man that wants the METTLE OF GENERATION.

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  1649.  DAVENANT, Love and Honour, ii. 1.

          Vas.  I must provide her culleises and broths
That may stir METTLE in her …. I find
Her no more fit for the business of encrease
Than I am to be a nun.

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  1672.  J. HOWARD, All Mistaken, iii. Phil. The very same, my METTLED female.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  TO FETCH METTLE, verb. phr. (venery).—To masturbate.—GROSE (1785). For synonyms, see FRIG.

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