Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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.]
- 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.
- 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.
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. miƤlte; It. milza; probably so named from its softness, and allied to mild, mellow, melt.]
- In anatomy, the spleen, a viscus situated in the left hypochondrium under the diaphragm.
- 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.
- A buffoon. [Obs.] [See Mimick.]
- 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.]