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<hw>Mill"board`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A kind of stout pasteboard.</def>

<h1>Mill-cake</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mill"-cake`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.</def>

<h1>Milldam</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mill"dam`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.</def>

<h1>Milled</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Milled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having been subjected to some process of milling.</def>

<cs><col>Milled cloth</col>, <cd>cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill.</cd> -- <col>Milled lead</col>, <cd>lead rolled into sheets.</cd></cs>

<h1>Millefiore glass</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil`le*fi*o"re glass`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[It. <ets>mille</ets> thousand + <ets>flore</ets> flower.]</ety> <def>Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.</def>

<h1>Milenarian</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mi`le*na"ri*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Millenary</er>.]</ety> <def>Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.</def>

<h1>Milenarian</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mi`le*na"ri*an</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.</def>

<h1>Milenarianism, Milenarism</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw><hw>Mi`le*na"ri*an*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Mi"le*na*rism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>The doctrine of Millenarians.</def>

<h1>Millenary</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"le*na*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>millenarius</ets>, fr. <ets>milleni</ets> a thousand each, fr. <ets>mille</ets> a thousand: cf. F. <ets>mill\'82naire</ets>. See <er>Mile</er>.]</ety> <def>Consisting of a thousand; millennial.</def>

<h1>Millenary</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"le*na*ry</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a <er>Millenarian</er>.</def>"During that <i>millenary</i>."

<i>Hare.</i>

<h1>Millennial</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil*len"ni*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; <as>as, a <ex>millennial</ex> period; <ex>millennial</ex> happiness.</as></def>

<h1>Millennialist</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil*len"ni*al*ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Millennialism, Millenniarism</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw><hw>Mil*len"ni*al*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Mil*len"ni*a*rism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.</def>

<h1>Millennist</h1> <Xpage=924>

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