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midsummer-men

A Eurasian mountain plant (Sedum rosea) with fleshy pink-tipped leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers.

midterm

the middle of the gestation period.

Midway

In the middle of the way or distance; half way.

Midweek

The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

midweekly

occurring during the middle of the week; as, a midweekly prayer meeting.

Midwest

The north central region of the U. S.

midwestern

Of or pertaining to the Midwest region of the U. S., generally including Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Nebraska; and sometimes Michigan; Wisconsin; Minnesota; as, a midwestern city; midwestern accent.

Midwife

To perform the office of midwife.

Midwifery

The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.

Mien

Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.

mierkat

A South African mongooselike viverrine (Suricata suricata) having a lemurlike face and only four toes; called also suricate.

Miff

To offend slightly.

Might

Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity.

Mightily

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

Mightiness

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

Mighty

In a great degree; very.

Mignonette

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.

migraine

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.

Migrant

A migratory bird, person, or other animal.

Mikado

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

mike

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

mil

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

Milady

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

Milanese

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

Mild

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.

Milden

To make mild, or milder.

Mildew

To become tainted with mildew.

Mildness

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

Mile

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

Mileage

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

Milepost

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.

Milesian

A native or inhabitant of Miletus.

Milestone

A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

Milfoil

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

Miliaria

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

Miliary

One of the small tubercles of Echini.

Miliola

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

Miliolitic

Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites.

Militant

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

militarization

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

militarize

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

militarized

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.

Military

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

Militate

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

militate against

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.

Milk

To draw or to yield milk.

milk shake milkshake

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

milkcap

A type of edible mushroom (Lactarius delicioso).

Milker

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

Milkful

Full of milk; abounding with food.

Milkmaid

A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.

Milkman

A man who sells milk or delivers it to customers.

Milksop

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

Milkweed

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.

Milkwort

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.

Milky

Consisting of, or containing, milk.

Mill

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

Mill-cake

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

Mill-sixpence

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

Milldam

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

Milled

Having been subjected to some process of milling.

Millenarian

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

Millenary

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

Millennial

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

Millennialist

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.

millennium bug

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.

Milleped

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

Millepora

A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

Millepore

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.

Miller

One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.

Millerite

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

Millesimal

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

millet

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.

milliammeter

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

Milliard

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

Millier

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

Milligramme Milligram

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.

Millilitre Milliliter

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.

Millimetre Millimeter

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

Millimicron

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.

milline

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

Millinery

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

Millinet

A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

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