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Webster 1913 Edition


Testicle

Tes′ti-cle

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Noun.
[L.
testiculus
, dim. of
testis
a testicle, probably the same word as
testis
a witness, as being a witness to manhood. Cf.
Test
a witness.]
(Anat.)
One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

Webster 1828 Edition


Testicle

TEST'ICLE

,
Noun.
[L. testiculus; literally a hard mass, like testa, shell.] The testicles are male organs of generation, consisting of glandular substances, whose office is to secrete the fecundating fluid.