subs. (common).—An oyster.
1841. THACKERAY, Comic Tales and Sketches, ii. p. 175, ‘The Professor.’ Mrs. Grampus herself operated with the oyster-knife, and served the MILTON morsels to the customers.
1854. MARTIN and AYTOUN, Bon Gualtier Ballads [14th ed. (1884), p. 180], ‘A Midnight Meditation.’ These mute inglorious MILTONS are divine.
