Part 169

Mill, n. 1. Short for Treadmill.

2. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.

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.

Mil"li*mi`cron (?), n. [Milli- + micron.] The thousandish part of a micron or the millionth part of a millimeter; -- a unit of length used in measuring light waves, etc.

Mi*lord" (?), n. [F. (also It., Sp., Russ.), fr. E. my lord.] Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman.

Min"er*al*ize, v. t. To charge or impregnate with ore.

Min"i*mal (?), a. Of, pertaining to, or having a character of, a minim or minimum; least; smallest; as, a minimal amount or value.

||Mi`no*rat" (?), n. [G. Cf. Minor, a.] (Law) A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir.

Mint sauce. 1. A sauce of vinegar and sugar flavored with spearmint leaves.

2. Money. [Slang, Eng.]

Min*yan" (?), n. (Jewish Relig.) A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.

Mir"li*ton (?), n. [F.] A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound.

Trilby singing "Ben Bolt" into a mirliton was a thing to be remembered, whether one would or no!

Du Maurier.

Mir"ror*scope (?), n. [Mirror + -scope.] See Projector, below.

Mir"ya*chit` (?), n. [Written also myriachit.] [Yakoot merjäk epileptic, fr. imerek jerk, rage.] (Med.) A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.

Mi"tis cast`ing (?). [Perh. fr. L. mitis mild.] A process, invented by P. Ostberg, for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminium is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay; also, a casting made by this process; -- called also wrought-iron casting.

Mitis metal. The malleable iron produced by mitis casting; -- called also simply mitis.

Mi*tot"ic (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to mitosis; karyokinetic; as, mitotic cell division; -- opposed to amitotic. -- Mi*tot"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

||Mi`tra`illeur" (?), n. A mitralleuse.

Mix"er, n. A person who has social intercourse with others of many sorts; a person viewed as to his casual sociability; -- commonly used with some characterizing adjective; as, a good mixer; a bad mixer. [Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]

Mo"ab*ite stone (?). (Archæol.) A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phœnician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27).

Mod"ern*ism, n. Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions, apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the church by purely subjective criteria; -- so called officially by Pope Pius X.

Mod"ern*ist, n. An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics.

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||Mo`diste" (?), n. [F. See Mode; cf. Modist.] One, esp. woman, who makes, or deals in, articles of fashion, esp. of the fashionable dress of ladies; a dress- maker or milliner.

||Mo"dus vi*ven"di (?). [L.] Mode, or manner, of living; hence, a temporary arrangement of affairs until disputed matters can be settled.