A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.
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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}.
a waterwheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill.
The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills.
A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
a meter that shows mileage traversed.
Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman.
a timid, unassertive man or boy fearful of confrontation and easily manipulated and dominated.
A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills (1913).
To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
A male fish.
Miltonic.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
A bird related to the kite.
A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.
To mimic.
to make copies of using a mimeograph.
A copying device that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed; it was invented by Edison.
to make copies of using a mimeograph; as, She mimeographed the syllabus.
A person who performs in a mime.
Imitation; mimicry.
See Mimetite.
Same as Mimicry.
A mineral occurring in pale yellow or brownish hexagonal crystals. It is an arseniate of lead.
One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.
In an imitative manner.
One who mimics; a mimic.
The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.
A giant who guarded the well of wisdom.
A writer of mimes.
A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and Mimosa pudica).
A natural family of spiny woody plants (usually shrubs or small trees) whose leaves mimic animals in sensitivity to touch; commonly included in the family Leguminosae.
An alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae.
Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannin or tannic acid found in Acacia, Mimosa, etc.
The type genus of the family Mimidae, comprising certain of the mockingbirds.
a dialect of Chinese.
An abbreviation for minute, a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.
See Myna.
Such as can be mined; as, minable earth.
Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
Threatening; menacing.
Disposition to threaten.
A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.
An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers.
In a minatory manner; with threats.
Threatening; menacing.
Same as Manul.
A short, precise step; an affected manner.
Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.
One who minces.
That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.
To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.
producing mood changes or distorted perception; -- used mostly of psychoactive substances; as, hallucinogenic drugs are mind-altering substances.
intensely affecting the mind, especially in producing hallucinations; -- usually of chemical substances.
mind-bending.
intellectually or emotionally overwhelming; straining one's capacity to comprehend or cope; as, a mind-boggling display; a mind-boggling puzzle.
Disposed; inclined; having a mind.
A battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the Anglo-Allied forces under duke Ferdinand of Brunswick defeated the French under Marshal Contades.
One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.
Regard; mindfulness.
Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, /Vengeance is mine; I will repay./ Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
extracted from a source of supply as of minerals from the earth.
a region in which explosive mines{4} have been placed, especially a region on land.
a ship equipped for laying underwater mines.
The act or process of laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment.
Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
containing or impregnated with minerals; as, mineralized water; red stains that signify mineralized land.
An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
A boat designed for the purpose of detecting and disposing of marine mines.
the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines.
The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
Same as Miniver.
A small biting fly; a midge.
an extreme stinginess.
A mixture.
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