Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 48

Millet (n.) 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.

Milli- () A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampere.

Milliampere (n.) The thousandth part of one ampere.

Milliard (n.) A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.

Milliary (a.) Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.

Milliaries (pl. ) of Milliary

Milliary (a.) A milestone.

Millier (n.) A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.

Millifold (a.) Thousandfold.

Milligram (n.) Alt. of Milligramme

Milligramme (n.) A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.

Milliliter (n.) Alt. of Millilitre

Millilitre (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce.

Millimeter (n.) Alt. of Millimetre

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

Milliner (n.) Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.

Milliner (n.) A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.

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

Millinery (n.) The business of work of a milliner.

Millinet (n.) A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

Milling (n.) 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.

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

Million (n.) A very great number; an indefinitely large number.

Million (n.) The mass of common people; -- with the article the.

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

Millionairess (n.) A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire.

Millionary (a.) Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits.

Millioned (a.) Multiplied by millions; innumerable.

Millionnaire (n.) Millionaire.

Millionth (a.) Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

Millionth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.

Milliped (n.) The same Milleped.

Millistere (n.) A liter, or cubic decimeter.

Milliweber (n.) The thousandth part of one weber.

Millrea (n.) Alt. of Millreis

Millree (n.) Alt. of Millreis

Millreis (n.) See Milreis.

Millrind (n.) Alt. of Millrynd

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

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

Millstone (n.) One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.

Millwork (n.) The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills.

Millwork (n.) The business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.

Millwright (n.) A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

Milreis (n.) 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.

Milt (n.) The spleen.

Milt (n.) The spermatic fluid of fishes.

Milt (n.) The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.

Milt (v. t.) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Milter (n.) A male fish.

Miltonian (a.) Miltonic.

Miltonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.

Miltwaste () A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.

Milvine (a.) Of or resembling birds of the kite kind.

Milvine (n.) A bird related to the kite.

Milvus (n.) A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.

Mime (n.) A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.

Mime (n.) An actor in such representations.

Mime (v. i.) To mimic.

Mimeograph (n.) An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.

Mimesis (n.) Imitation; mimicry.

Mimetene (n.) See Mimetite.

Mimetic () Alt. of Mimetical

Mimetical () Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.

Mimetical () Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals and plants; as, mimetic species; mimetic organisms. See Mimicry.

Mimetism (n.) Same as Mimicry.

Mimetite (n.) A mineral occurring in pale yellow or brownish hexagonal crystals. It is an arseniate of lead.

Mimic (a.) Alt. of Mimical

Mimical (a.) Imitative; mimetic.

Mimical (a.) Consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures.

Mimical (a.) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; -- applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

Mimic (n.) One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.

Mimicked (imp. & p. p.) of Mimic

Mimicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mimic

Mimic (v. t.) To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.

Mimic (v. t.) To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

Mimically (adv.) In an imitative manner.

Mimicker (n.) One who mimics; a mimic.

Mimicker (n.) An animal which imitates something else, in form or habits.

Mimicry (n.) The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.

Mimicry (n.) Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism.

Mimographer (n.) A writer of mimes.

Mimosa (n.) A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M. pudica).

Mimotannic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannin or tannic acid found in Acacia, Mimosa, etc.

Minae (pl. ) of Mina

Minas (pl. ) of Mina

Mina (n.) An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.

Mina (n.) See Myna.

Minable (a.) Such as can be mined; as, minable earth.

Minacious (a.) Threatening; menacing.

Minacity (n.) Disposition to threaten.

Minaret (n.) 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.

Minargent (n.) An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers.

Minatorially (adv.) Alt. of Minatorily

Minatorily (adv.) In a minatory manner; with threats.

Minatory (a.) Threatening; menacing.

Minaul (n.) Same as Manul.

Minced (imp. & p. p.) of Mince

Minging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mince

Mince (v. t.) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.

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