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Milk (mĭlk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milked (mĭlkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Milking.]
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1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. “Milking the kine.” Gay.
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I have given suck, and know
How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me. Shak.
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2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
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3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale.
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They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator.
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Coloq. To milk the street , to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant] -- Coloq. To milk a telegram , to use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]
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Milk (?), v. i. 1. To draw or to yield milk.
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2. (Elec.) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage battery.
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milkcap n. A type of edible mushroom (Lactarius delicioso).
Syn. -- Lactarius delicioso.
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Milken (?), a. Consisting of milk. [Obs.]
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Milker (?), n. 1. One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
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2. A cow or other animal that gives milk.
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Milkful (?), a. Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] “Milkful vales.” Sylvester.
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Milkily (?), adv. In a milky manner.
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Milkiness, n. State or quality of being milky.
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Milk-livered (?), a. White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
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Milkmaid (?), n. A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
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Milkman (?), n.; pl. Milkmen (�). A man who sells milk or delivers it to customers.
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milkshake, milk shake (mĭlk shāk) n. A frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream, shaken together or blended in a blender.
Syn. -- milk shake, shake.
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Milk sickness. (Veter., Med.) A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted water.
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Milksop (?), n. A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak.
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To wed a milksop or a coward ape. Chaucer.
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Milk vetch (?). (Bot.) A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.
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☞ The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere.
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milkwagon n. a wagon for delivering milk.
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Milkweed (?), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge. Its leaves are a favorite food source for the larvae of the monarch butterfly.
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Milkwort (?), n. (Bot.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European Polygala vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
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☞ The species of Campanula, or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort, from their juice.
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Milky (?), a. 1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.
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Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.
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2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. “Milky juice.” Arbuthnot.
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3. Yielding milk. “Milky mothers.” Roscommon.
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4. Mild; tame; spiritless.
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Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? Shak.
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Coloq. Milky Way . (Astron.) See , 1.
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Mill (mĭl), n. [L. mille a thousand. Cf. .] A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
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Mill, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. mühle, OHG. mulī, mulīn, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. √108. See Meal flour, and cf. .]
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1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or indented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
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2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
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3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
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4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
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5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
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6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
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7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
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8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under .
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9. A pugilistic encounter. [Cant] R. D. Blackmore.
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10. Short for .
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11. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
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12. A building or complex of buildings containing a mill{1} or other machinery to grind grains into flour.
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Coloq. Edge mill , Coloq. Flint mill , etc. See under , , etc. -- Coloq. Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Coloq. Mill cinder , slag from a puddling furnace. -- Coloq. Mill head , the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Coloq. Mill pick , a pick for dressing millstones. -- Coloq. Mill pond , a pond that supplies the water for a mill. -- Coloq. Mill race , the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel. -- Coloq. Mill tail , the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows. -- Coloq. Mill tooth , a grinder or molar tooth. -- Coloq. Mill wheel , the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. -- Coloq. Gin mill , a tavern; a bar; a saloon; especially, a cheap or seedy establishment that serves liquor by the drink. -- Coloq. Roller mill , a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers. -- Coloq. Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps. -- Coloq. To go through the mill , to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
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Mill (mĭl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled (mĭld); p. pr. & vb. n. Milling.] [See , n., and cf. .]
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1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
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2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
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3. To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
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4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
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5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] Thackeray.
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6. To roll into bars, as steel.
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Coloq. To mill chocolate , to make it frothy, as by churning.
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Mill, v. i. (Zoöl.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
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2. To undergo hulling, as maize.
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3. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; -- usually used with around.
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The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius. Kipling.
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4. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.
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5. To take part in a mill; to box. [Cant]
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Mill, v. t. 1. (Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
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2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
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Millboard (mĭlbōrd), n. A kind of stout pasteboard.
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Mill-cake (mĭlkāk), n. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.
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Milldam (mĭldăm), n. A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.
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Milled (mĭld), a. 1. Having been subjected to some process of milling.
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2. Specifically: Having multiple fine grooves on the rim, in the direction from obverse to reverse; -- of coins. Coins of silver and gold were milled to make it impossible for uncrupulous persons to shave small pieces from the edge without detection.
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Coloq. Milled cloth , cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Coloq. Milled lead , lead rolled into sheets.
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Millefiore glass (?). [It. mille thousand + fiore flower.] Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.
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Millenarian (?), a. [See .] Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
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Millenarian, n. One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
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{ Millenarianism (?), Millenarism (?), } n. The doctrine of Millenarians.
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Millenary (?), a. [L. millenarius, fr. milleni a thousand each, fr. mille a thousand: cf. F. millénaire. See .] Consisting of a thousand; millennial.
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Millenary, n. The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a .“During that millenary.” Hare.
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Millennial (?), a. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
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Millennialist, n. One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.
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{ Millennianism (?), Millenniarism (?), } n. Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium{2}; millenarianism.
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Millennist (mĭllĕnnĭst), n. One who believes in the millennium{2}. [Obs.] Johnson.
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Millennium (mĭllĕnnĭŭm), n. [LL., fr. L. mille a thousand + annus a year. See , and .] 1. A period of one thousand years.
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2. Specifically: The period of a thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.
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3. Hence: A long period of happiness, righteousness, and prosperity, usually considered as being in the indefinite future.
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4. A thousandth anniversary; especially, Each first day of January falling in a year which is a multiple of one thousand, such as in 1000 a. d. or 2000 a. d.; as, the second millenium will be celebrated on January 1, 2000; also used attributively, as a millenium celebration. Technically, if the calendar of the Common Era (Anno Domini) is considered as beginning on January 1, 1 a. d., then the millenium will fall in each year ending in 001, as in 1001 a. d. or January 1, 2001 a. d.. However in the common culture, the change of the first digit of the year from 1 to 2, as from 1999 to 2000 is considered as the more symbolic event, especially since the dating of the beginning of the Christian era is somewhat arbitrary, having been an attempt to fix the date of the birth of Christ, and being considered by scholars as being in error by as much as five years.
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millennium bug (mĭllĕnnĭŭm bŭg), n. (Computers) An error in the coding of certain computer programs which store the year component of the date as two digits, assuming that the first two digits are 19, rather than as a complete number of four digits; when such programs are used after January 1, 2000, the date may be misinterpreted, causing serious errors or total failure of the program; -- called also year 2000 bug, year 2000 problem and Y2K bug. In the several years leading up to the year 2000, large corporations and other users of computers in total spent many billions of dollars correcting this error in the programs they use.
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Milleped (mĭll�pĕdĭ), n. [L. millepeda; mille a thousand + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. mille-pieds.] (Zoöl.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped.]
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Millepora (mĭll�pōrȧ), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.
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Millepore (mĭll�pōr), n. [L. mille thousand + porus pore: cf. F. millépore.] (Zoöl.) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See .
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Milleporite (?), n. (Paleon.) A fossil millepore.
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Miller (mĭlẽr), n. 1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
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2. A milling machine.
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3. (Zoöl.) (a) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller. (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
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Coloq. Miller's thumb . (Zoöl.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species (Uranidea gobio), and the American (Uranidea gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.]
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Millerite (?), n. A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.
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Millerite, n. [From W. H. Miller, of Cambridge, Eng.] (Min.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.
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Millesimal (?), a. [L. millesimus, fr. mille a thousand.] Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
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millet (mĭllĕt), n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. melinh, AS. mil.] (Bot.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.

☞ Coloq. Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. -- Coloq. Egyptian millet or Coloq. East Indian millet is Penicillaria spicata. -- Coloq. Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under .) -- Coloq. Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass. -- Coloq. Texas millet is Panicum Texanum. -- Coloq. Wild millet , or Coloq. Millet grass , is Milium effusum, a tall grass growing in woods.
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mill-girl n. a girl who works in a mill.
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Milli- (mĭllĭ-). [From L. mille a thousand.] (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampère.
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milliammeter n. a sensitive ammeter for detecting small currents, graduated in milliamperes.
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Milliampère (mĭllĭäNpâr), n. [Milli- + ampère.] (Elec.) The thousandth part of one ampère.
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Milliard (F. m�lyȧr; E. mĭllĭärd), n. [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille.] A thousand millions; -- usually called billion in the United States. See .
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Milliary (mĭllĭ�r�), a. [L. milliarius containing a thousand, fr. mille thousand: cf. F. milliaire milliary. See .] Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.
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A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note. Evelyn.
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Milliary, n.; pl. Milliaries (#). [L. milliarium. See , a.] A milestone.
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Millier (?), n. [F., fr. mille thousand.] A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.
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Millifold (?), a. [L. mille thousand + E. fold times.] Thousandfold. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).
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{ Milligram, Milligramme } (?), n. [F. milligramme; milli- milli- + gramme. See 3d .] A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.
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{ Milliliter, Millilitre } (?), n. [F. millilitre; milli- milli- + litre. See .] A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce.
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{ Millimeter, Millimetre } (?), n. [F. millimètre; milli- milli- + mètre. See 3d .] A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d .
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Millimicron (?), n. [Milli- + micron.] The thousandth part of a micron or the millionth part of a millimeter; -- a unit of length used in measuring light waves, etc.
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milline n. an advertising measure; one agate line appearing in one million copies of a publication.
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Milliner (?), n. [From Milaner an inhabitant of Milan, in Italy; hence, a man from Milan who imported women's finery.]
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1. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.]
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No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.
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2. A person who designs, makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
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Coloq. Man milliner , a man who makes or deals in millinery, that occupation having been at one time predominantly performed by women; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.
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Millinery (?), n. 1. The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
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2. The business of work of a milliner.
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Millinet (?), n. A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.
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Milling (?), n. The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See .
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Coloq. High milling , milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product. -- Coloq. Low milling , milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding. -- Coloq. Milling cutter , a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes. -- Coloq. Milling machine , a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters. -- Coloq. Milling tool , a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.
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Million (mĭlyŭn), n. [F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See .] 1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000,000. See the Note under .
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2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number.
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Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. Locke.
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3. The mass of common people; -- with the article the.
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For the play, I remember, pleased not the million. Shak.
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Millionaire (?; 277), n. [F. millionnaire.] One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire.]
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Millionairess, n. A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [Humorous] Holmes.
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Millionary (?), a. Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits. Pinkerton.
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Millioned (?), a. Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.] Shak.
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Millionnaire (?), n. [F.] Millionaire.
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Millionth (?), a. Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.
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Millionth, n. The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.
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Milliped (?), n. (Zoöl.) The same .
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Millistere (?), n. [F. millistère, from milli- milli- + stère.] A liter, or cubic decimeter.
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Milliweber (?), n. [Milli- + weber.] (Physics) The thousandth part of one weber.
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millpond n. a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel.
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millrace n. a channel from a millpond to a millwheel, to provide the water current that turns the millwheel.
Syn. -- millrun.
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