Bible Dictionaries
Sweetbread
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) The pancreas.
(2):
(n.) Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, / throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sweetbread'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/sweetbread.html. 1828.