Miliola (n.) A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.
Miliolite (n.) A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola.
Miliolite (a.) The same Milliolitic.
Miliolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites.
Militancy (n.) The state of being militant; warfare.
Militancy (n.) A military spirit or system; militarism.
Militant (a.) Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.
Militar (a.) Military.
Militarily (adv.) In a military manner.
Militarism (n.) A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
Militarism (n.) The spirit and traditions of military life.
Militarist (n.) A military man.
Military (a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
Military (a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.
Military (n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
Militated (imp. & p. p.) of Militate
Militating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Militate
Militate (v. i.) To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with.
Militia (n.) In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service; specifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in emergencies.
Militia (n.) Military service; warfare.
Militiamen (pl. ) of Militiaman
Militiaman (n.) One who belongs to the militia.
Militiate (v. i.) To carry on, or prepare for, war.
Milk (n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.
Milk (n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
Milk (n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
Milk (n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
Milked (imp. & p. p.) of Milk
Milking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Milk
Milk (v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.
Milk (v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
Milk (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.
Milk (v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
Milken (a.) Consisting of milk.
Milker (n.) One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
Milker (n.) A cow or other animal that gives milk.
Milkful (a.) Full of milk; abounding with food.
Milkily (adv.) In a milky manner.
Milkiness (n.) State or quality of being milky.
Milk-livered (a.) White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
Milkmaid (n.) A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
Milkmen (pl. ) of Milkman
Milkman (n.) A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.
Milksop (n.) A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.
Milk vetch () A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.
Milkweed (n.) 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.
Milkwort (n.) 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.
Milky (a.) Consisting of, or containing, milk.
Milky (a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice."
Milky (a.) Yielding milk.
Milky (a.) Mild; tame; spiritless.
Mill (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
Mill (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
Mill (n.) A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
Mill (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
Mill (n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
Mill (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
Mill (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
Mill (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
Mill (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
Mill (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
Mill (n.) A pugilistic.
Milled (imp. & p. p.) of Mill
Milling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mill
Mill (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
Mill (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
Mill (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
Mill (n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
Mill (n.) To beat with the fists.
Mill (n.) To roll into bars, as steel.
Mill (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
Millboard (n.) A kind of stout pasteboard.
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.
Milldam (n.) A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.
Milled (a.) Having been subjected to some process of milling.
Millefiore glass () Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.
Millenarian (a.) Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
Millenarian (n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
Millenarianism (n.) Alt. of Millenarism
Millenarism (n.) The doctrine of Millenarians.
Millenary (a.) Consisting of a thousand; millennial.
Millenary (n.) The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian.
Millennial (a.) Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
Millennialist (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 a long period.
Millennialism (n.) Alt. of Millenniarism
Millenniarism (n.) Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.
Millennist (n.) One who believes in the millennium.
Millennium (n.) A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.
Milleped (n.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.
Millepora (n.) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.
Millepore (n.) 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.
Milleporite (n.) A fossil millepore.
Miller (n.) One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
Miller (n.) A milling machine.
Miller (n.) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.
Miller (n.) The eagle ray.
Miller (n.) The hen harrier.
Millerite (n.) A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.
Millerite (n.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.
Millesimal (a.) Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.