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- English Word Miller Definition A milling machine.
- English Word Miller Definition 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.
- English Word Miller Definition The eagle ray.
- English Word Miller Definition The hen harrier.
- English Word Millerite Definition 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.
- English Word Millerite Definition A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.
- English Word Millesimal Definition Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
- English Word Millet Definition 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.
- English Word Milli- Definition A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampere.
- English Word Milliampere Definition The thousandth part of one ampere.
- English Word Milliard Definition A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.
- English Word Milliaries Definition of Milliary
- English Word Milliary Definition Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.
- English Word Milliary Definition A milestone.
- English Word Millier Definition A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.
- English Word Millifold Definition Thousandfold.
- English Word Milligram Definition Alt. of Milligramme
- English Word Milligramme Definition 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.
- English Word Milliliter Definition Alt. of Millilitre
- English Word Millilitre Definition 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.
- English Word Millimeter Definition Alt. of Millimetre
- English Word Millimetre Definition A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.
- English Word Milliner Definition Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.
- English Word Milliner Definition A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
- English Word Millinery Definition The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
- English Word Millinery Definition The business of work of a milliner.
- English Word Millinet Definition A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.
- English Word Milling Definition of Mill
- English Word Milling Definition 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.
- English Word Million Definition The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred.