In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully.

The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity.

Without; weak.

In a great degree; very.

Soft; dainty.

Delicate fondling.

To flatter.

A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.

A kind of intense sick or nervous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head; called also migraine headache. Same as megrim.

A migratory bird, person, or other animal.

The act of migrating.

The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan; the emperor of Japan.

A microphone, the device for converting sound waves into electrical energy.

Same as Micmacs.

One million dollars; as, his new house cost over a mil.

Lit., my lady; hence (as used on the Continent), an English noblewoman or gentlewoman.

Same as Mileage.

Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Milan; people of Milan.

Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

To make mild, or milder.

To become tainted with mildew.

In a mild manner.

The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.

a meter that shows mileage traversed.

A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

A native or inhabitant of Miletus.

A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.

A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.

One of the small tubercles of Echini.

Militia.

Environment.

A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

The same Miliolitic.

Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites.

Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.

Military.

In a military manner.

militarization.

A military man.

imbued with militarism, in senses 3 or 4.

act of assembling and putting into readiness the military forces for war or other emergency.

to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.

Equipped with weapons; armed; -- used of persons, regions, or the military. Contrasted to unarmed and demilitarized; as, if that's a demilitarized zone, I wonder what a militarized zone would look like.

The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.

To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with.

To argue against; to cast doubt on; -- used in reference to facts which tend to disprove a hypothesis; as, the absence of a correlation of budget deficits with inflation militates against any causal relation between the two. Opposite of support.

One who belongs to the militia.

To carry on, or prepare for, war.

To draw or to yield milk.

A frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream, shaken together or blended in a blender.

White-livered; cowardly; timorous.

A type of edible mushroom (Lactarius delicioso).

Consisting of milk.

One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.

Full of milk; abounding with food.

In a milky manner.

State or quality of being milky.

A man who sells milk or delivers it to customers.

A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.

a wagon for delivering milk.

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.

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.

Consisting of, or containing, milk.

To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

a girl who works in a mill.

A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

A kind of stout pasteboard.

A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

Having been subjected to some process of milling.

One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.

The doctrine of Millenarians.

The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian.

Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.

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.

Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium{2}; millenarianism.

One who believes in the millennium{2}.

A period of one thousand years.

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.

A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.

A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

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.

A fossil millepore.

One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.

A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.

Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.

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.

a sensitive ammeter for detecting small currents, graduated in milliamperes.

The thousandth part of one ampere.

A thousand millions; -- usually called billion in the United States. See Billion.

A milestone.

A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.

Thousandfold.

A measure of mass and weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, very nearly equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.

A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is very nearly equal to a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061025 of an English cubic inch, or to .033815 of an American fluid ounce.

A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.

The thousandth part of a micron or the millionth part of a millimeter; one nanometer; -- a unit of length sometimes used in measuring light waves, etc.

an advertising measure; one agate line appearing in one million copies of a publication.

The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.

A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

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.

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

One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more.

A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire.

Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits.

Multiplied by millions; innumerable.

Millionaire.

The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.

The same Milleped.

A liter, or cubic decimeter.

The thousandth part of one weber.

a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel.

a channel from a millpond to a millwheel, to provide the water current that turns the millwheel.

See Milreis.

a millrace.

A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance in a mill{1}.