Dictionary: MIL'LI-LIT-ER – MIM-ER

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MIL'LI-LIT-ER, n. [L. mille, a thousand, and liter.]

A French measure of capacity containing the thousandth part of a liter or cubic decimeter, equal to .06103 decimals of a cubic inch. Cyc.

MIL-LIM'E-TER, n. [L. mille, a thousand, and metrum, a measure.]

A French lineal measure containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 decimals of an inch. It is the least measure of length. Lunier. Cyc.

MIL'LIN-ER, n. [Johnson supposes this word to be Milaner, from Milan, in Italy.]

A woman who makes and sells head-dresses, hats or bonnets, &c. for females.

MIL'LIN-ER-Y, n.

The articles made or sold by milliners, as head-dresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribins, and the like.

MILL'ING, ppr.

Grinding; reducing to small pieces; fulling, as cloth.

MILL-ION, a. [mil'yun; Fr. million; It. milione; Sp. millon; Port. milham; probably from L. mille, a thousand.]

  1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand. It is used as a noun or an adjective; as, a million of men, or a million men. As a noun, it has a regular plural, millions.
  2. In common usage, a very great number, indefinitely. There are millions of truths that men are not concerned to know. Locke.

MILL'ION-AIRE, n. [Fr.]

A man worth a million.

MILL'ION-A-RY, a.

Pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the Pundits. Pinkerton.

MILL'ION-ED, a.

Multiplied by millions. [Not used.] Shak.

MILL'IONTH, a.

The ten hundred thousandth.

MILL-LE-NA'RI-AN, a. [Fr. millenaire. See Millennium.]

Consisting of a thousand years; pertaining to the millennium. Encyc.

MILL'POND, n.

A pond or reservoir of water raised for driving a mill wheel.

MILL'RACE, n.

The current of water that drives a mill wheel, or the canal in which it is conveyed. Franklin.

MILL-REA, or MILL-REE', n.

A coin of Portugal of the value of $1.24 cents.

MILL'-SIX-PENCE, n.

An old English coin first milled in 1561. Douce.

MILL'STONE, n.

A stone used for grinding grain. To see into a millstone, to see with acuteness, or to penetrate into abtruse subjects. Quart. Rev.

MILL'-TOOTH, n. [plur. Mill-teeth.]

A grinder, dens molaris. Arbuthnot.

MILL'-WRIGHT, n.

A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills.

MILT, n. [Sax. milt; Dan. and D. milt; G. milz; Sw. miälte; It. milza; probably so named from its softness, and allied to mild, mellow, melt.]

  1. In anatomy, the spleen, a viscus situated in the left hypochondrium under the diaphragm.
  2. The soft roe of fishes, or the spermatic part of the males. Encyc.

MILT, v.t.

To impregnate the roe or spawn of the female fish. Johnson.

MILT'ER, n.

A male fish. Walton.

MILT'WORT, n.

A plant of the genus Asplenium.

MIME, n.

  1. A buffoon. [Obs.] [See Mimick.]
  2. A kind of dramatic farce. [Obs.]

MIME, v.i.

To mimick, or play the buffoon. [Obs.] [See Mimick.]

MIM-ER, n.

A mimick. [Obs.] [See Mimick.]