Chapter 979

Milk"wort` (?) , n. (Bot.) A genus of plants ( Polygala ) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.

&hand; The species of Campanula , or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort , from their juice.

Milky <Xpage=924>

Milk"y (?) , a. 1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.

Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.

2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky . " Milky juice."

Arbuthnot.

3. Yielding milk. " Milky mothers."

Roscommon.

4. Mild; tame; spiritless.

Has friendship such a faint and milky heart? Shak.

Milky Way . (Astron.) See Galaxy , 1.

Mill <Xpage=924>

Mill (?) , n. [L. mille a thousand. Cf. Mile .] A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

Mill <Xpage=924>

Mill , n. [OE. mille , melle , mulle , milne , AS. myln , mylen ; akin to D. molen , G. m\'81hle , OHG. mul\'c6 , mul\'c6n , 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 . <?/<?/<?/<?/. See Meal flour, and cf. Moline .]

1. A machine for grinding or commuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a grist mill , a coffee mill ; a bone mill .

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 .

3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill .

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 saw mill ; a stamping mill , etc.

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 .

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.

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.

8. A milling cutter. See Illust . under Milling .

9. A pugilistic. [Cant]

R. D. Blackmore.

Edge mill , Flint mill , etc. See under Edge , Flint , etc. -- 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. -- Mill cinder , slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head , the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick , a pick for dressing millstones. -- Mill pond , a pond that supplies the water for a mill. -- Mill race , the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel. -- Mill tail , the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows. -- Mill tooth , a grinder or molar tooth. -- Mill wheel , the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. -- Roller mill , a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers. -- Stamp mill (Mining) , a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps. -- 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.

Mill <Xpage=924>

Mill (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Milled (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Milling .] [See Mill , n. , and cf. Muller .]

1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

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.

4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

5. To beat with the fists. [Cant]

Thackeray.

6. To roll into bars, as steel.

To mill chocolate , to make it frothy, as by churning.

Mill <Xpage=924>

Mill , v. i. (Zo\'94l.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.

Millboard <Xpage=924>

Mill"board` (?) , n. A kind of stout pasteboard.

Mill-cake <Xpage=924>

Mill"-cake` (?) , n. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

Milldam <Xpage=924>

Mill"dam` (?) , n. A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

Milled <Xpage=924>

Milled (?) , a. Having been subjected to some process of milling.

Milled cloth , cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Milled lead , lead rolled into sheets.

Millefiore glass <Xpage=924>

Mil`le*fi*o"re glass` (?) . [It. mille thousand + flore flower.] Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.

Milenarian <Xpage=924>

Mi`le*na"ri*an (?) , a. [See Millenary .] Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.

Milenarian <Xpage=924>

Mi`le*na"ri*an , n. One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.

Milenarianism, Milenarism <Xpage=924>

Mi`le*na"ri*an*ism (?) , Mi"le*na*rism (?) , n. The doctrine of Millenarians.

Millenary <Xpage=924>

Mil"le*na*ry (?) , a. [L. millenarius , fr. milleni a thousand each, fr. mille a thousand: cf. F. mill\'82naire . See Mile .] Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

Millenary <Xpage=924>

Mil"le*na*ry , n. The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian . "During that millenary ."

Hare.

Millennial <Xpage=924>

Mil*len"ni*al (?) , a. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.

Millennialist <Xpage=924>

Mil*len"ni*al*ist , 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.

Millennialism, Millenniarism <Xpage=924>

Mil*len"ni*al*ism (?) , Mil*len"ni*a*rism (?) , n. Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.

Millennist <Xpage=924>

Mil"len*nist (?) , n. One who believes in the millennium. [Obs.]

Johnson.

Millennium <Xpage=924>

Mil*len"ni*um (?) , n. [LL., fr. L. mille a thousand + annus a year. See Mile , and Annual .] A thousand years; especially, thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter 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.

Milleped <Xpage=924>

Mil"le*ped (?) , n. [L. millepeda ; mille a thousand + pes , pedis , foot: cf. F. mille-pieds .] (Zo\'94l.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped .]

Millepora <Xpage=924>

Mil*le*po"ra (?) , n. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

Millepore <Xpage=924>

Mil"le*pore (?) , n. [L. mille thousand + porus pore: cf. F. mill\'82pore .] (Zo\'94l.) 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 Hydrocorallia .

Milleporite <Xpage=924>

Mil"le*po*rite (?) , n. (Paleon.) A fossil millepore.

Miller <Xpage=924>

Mill"er (?) , n. 1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.

2. A milling machine.

3. (Zo\'94l.) (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.]

Miller's thumb . (Zo\'94l.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus ), as the European species ( U. gobio ), and the American ( U. gracilis ); -- called also bullhead . (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit . [Prov. Eng.]

Millerite <Xpage=924>

Mil"ler*ite (?) , 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.

Millerite <Xpage=924>

Mil"ler*ite , 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 .

Millesimal <Xpage=924>

Mil*les"i*mal (?) , a. [L. millesimus , fr. mille a thousand.] Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions .

Millet <Xpage=924>

Mil"let (?) , n. [F., dim. of mil , L. milium ; akin to Gr. <?/, 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 . <-- all species in this note are subtypes --> &hand; Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense . -- Egyptian or East Indian , millet is Penicillaria spicata . -- Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare . (See under Indian .) -- 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 . -- Texas millet is Panicum Texanum . -- Wild millet , or Millet grass , is Milium effusum , a tail grass growing in woods.

Milli- <Xpage=924>

Mil"li- (?) . [From L. mille a thousand.] (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A prefix denoting a thousandth part of ; as, milli meter, milli gram, milli amp\'8are .

Milliamp\'8are <Xpage=924>

Mil`li*am`p\'8are" (?) , n. [ Milli- + amp\'8are .] (Elec.) The thousandth part of one amp\'8are.

Milliard <Xpage=924>

Mil`liard" (?) , n. [F., from mille , mil , thousand, L. mille .] A thousand millions; -- called also billion . See Billion .

Milliary <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*a*ry (?) , a. [L. milliarius containing a thousand, fr. mille thousand: cf. F. milliaire milliary. See Mile .] Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.

A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note. Evelyn.

Milliary <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*a*ry , n. ; pl. Milliaries (#) . [L. milliarium . See Milliary , a. ] A milestone.

Millier <Xpage=924>

Mil`lier" (?) , n. [F., fr. mille thousand.] A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.

Millifold <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*fold` (?) , a. [L. mille thousand + E. fold times.] Thousandfold. [R.]

Davies (Holy Roode).

Milligram, Milligramme <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*gram , Mil"li*gramme (?) , n. [F. milligramme ; milli- milli- + gramme . See 3d Gram .] 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.

Milliliter, Millilitre <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*li`ter , Mil"li*li`tre (?) , n. [F. millilitre ; milli- milli- + litre . See Liter .] 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.

Millimeter, Millimetre <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*me`ter , Mil"li*me`tre (?) , n. [F. millim\'8atre ; milli- milli- + m\'8atre . See 3d Meter .] A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter .

Milliner <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*ner (?) , n. [From Milaner an inhabitant of Milan , in Italy; hence, a man from Milan who imported women's finery.]

1. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.]

No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

2. A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.

Man milliner , a man who makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

Millinery <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*ner*y (?) , n. 1. The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.

2. The business of work of a milliner.

Millinet <Xpage=924>

Mil`li*net" (?) , n. A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

Milling <Xpage=924>

Mill"ing (?) , 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 Mill .

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. -- Low milling , milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding. -- Milling cutter , a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes. -- Milling machine , a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters. -- 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.

Million <Xpage=924>

Mil"lion (?) , n. [F., from LL. millio , fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile .]

1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred

2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number.

Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. Locke.

3. The mass of common people; -- with the article the .

For the play, I remember, pleased not the million . Shak.

Millionaire <Xpage=924>

Mil`lion*aire" (?; 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 .]

Millionairess <Xpage=924>

Mil`lion*air"ess , n. A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [Humorous]

Holmes.

Millionary <Xpage=924>

Mil"lion*a*ry (?) , a. Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits .

Pinker<?/on.

Millioned <Xpage=924>

Mil"lioned (?) , a. Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.]

Shak.

Millionnaire <Xpage=924>

Mil`lion`naire" (?) , n. [F.] Millionaire.

Millionth <Xpage=924>

Mil"lionth (?) , 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.

Millionth <Xpage=924>

Mil"lionth , n. The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.

Milliped <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*ped (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) The same Milleped .

Millistere <Xpage=924>

Mil"li*stere (?) , n. [F. millist\'8are , from milli- milli- + st\'8are .] A liter, or cubic decimeter.

Milliweber <Xpage=924>

Mil`li*we"ber (?) , n. [ Milli- + weber .] (Physics) The thousandth part of one weber.

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Millrea, Millree, Millreis <Xpage=925>

Mill"rea` (?) , Mill"ree` , Mill"reis` (?) , n. See Milreis .

Millrind, Millrynd <Xpage=925>

Mill"rind` (?) , Mill"rynd` (?) , n. [ Mill + rynd .] (Her.) A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

Mill-sixpence <Xpage=925>

Mill"-sixpence (?) , n. A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

Millstone <Xpage=925>

Mill"stone` (?) , n. One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deut. xxiv. 6.

&hand; The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also, some kinds of lava, as that Niedermendig, or other firm rock with rough texture. The surface of a millstone has usually a series of radial grooves in which the powdered material collects.

Millstone girt (Geol.) , a hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See Farewell rock , under Farewell , a. , and Chart of Geology . -- To see into, &or; through, a millstone , to see into or through a difficult matter. (Colloq.)

Millwork <Xpage=925>

Mill"work` (?) , n. 1. The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mils.

2. The business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.

Millwright <Xpage=925>

Mill"wright` (?) , n. A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

Milreis <Xpage=925>