Consisting of milk.
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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 woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
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}.
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.
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