Webster's Dictionary 1913

3268

Milksop

Milk″sop′ (?), n. A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak.To wed a milksop or a coward ape. Chaucer.

3269

Milkweed

Milk″weed′ (?), n.(Bot.) 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 als...

3270

Milkwort

Milk″wort′ (?), n.(Bot.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.☞ The...

3271

Milky

Milk″y (?), a. 1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. “Mi...

3272

Mill

Mill (mĭl), n. [L. mille a thousand. Cf. Mile.] A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

3273

Mill (2)

Mill, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. mühle, OHG. mulī, mulīn, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that w...

3274

Mill (3)

Mill (mĭl), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Milled (mĭld); p. pr. & vb. n.Milling.] [See Mill, n., and cf. Muller.]1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to...

3275

Mill (4)

Mill, v. i.(Zoöl.) To swim under water; — said of air-breathing creatures.

3276

Mill (5)

Mill (?), v. i. 1. To undergo hulling, as maize.2. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain.The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of e...

3277

Mill (6)

Mill, n. 1. Short for Treadmill.2. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.

3278

Mill (7)

Mill, v. t. 1. (Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

3279

Mill-cake

Mill″–cake′ (?), n. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

3280

Mill-sixpence

Mill″–sixpence (?), n. A milled sixpence; — the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

3281

Millboard

Mill″board′ (?), n. A kind of stout pasteboard.

3282

Milldam

Mill″dam′ (?), n. A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

3283

Milled

Milled (?), a. Having been subjected to some process of milling.Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. — Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.

3284

Millefiore glass

Mil′le‐fi‐o″re glass′ (?). [It. mille thousand + fiore flower.] Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; — used for paperweights and ot...

3285

Millenarian

Mil′le‐na″ri‐an (?), a. [See Millenary.] Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.

3286

Millenarian (2)

Mil′le‐na″ri‐an, n. One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.

3287

Millenarianism

{ Mil′le‐na″ri‐an‐ism (?), Mil″le‐na‐rism (?), } n. The doctrine of Millenarians.

3288

Millenary

Mil″le‐na‐ry (?), a. [L. millenarius, fr. milleni a thousand each, fr. mille a thousand: cf. F. millénaire. See Mile.] Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

3289

Millenary (2)

Mil″le‐na‐ry, n. The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian.“During that millenary.” Hare.

3290

Millennial

Mil‐len″ni‐al (?), a. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.

3291

Millennialist

Mil‐len″ni‐al‐ist, n. 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 ...

3292

Millennianism

{ Mil‐len″ni‐an‐ism (?), Mil‐len″ni‐a‐rism (?), } n. Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.

3293

Millennist

Mil″len‐nist (mĭl″lĕn‐nĭst), n. One who believes in the millennium. Johnson.

3294

Millennium

Mil‐len″ni‐um (mĭl‐lĕn″nĭ‐ŭm), n. [LL., fr. L. mille a thousand + annus a year. See Mile, and Annual.] A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentiet...