Part 7050

<hw>Mil"len*nist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who believes in the millennium.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Millennium</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil*len"ni*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL., fr. L. <ets>mille</ets> a thousand + <ets>annus</ets> a year. See <er>Mile</er>, and <er>Annual</er>.]</ety> <def>A thousand years; especially, 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.</def>

<h1>Milleped</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"le*ped</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>millepeda</ets>; <ets>mille</ets> a thousand + <ets>pes</ets>, <ets>pedis</ets>, foot: cf. F. <ets>mille-pieds</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>millipede</asp> and <asp>milliped</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Millepora</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil*le*po"ra</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.</def>

<h1>Millepore</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"le*pore</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>mille</ets> thousand + <ets>porus</ets> pore: cf. F. <ets>mill\'82pore</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>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 <er>Hydrocorallia</er>.</def>

<h1>Milleporite</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"le*po*rite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>A fossil millepore.</def>

<h1>Miller</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mill"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A milling machine.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>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 <altname>moth miller</altname>.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The eagle ray.</def> <sd>(c)</sd> <def>The hen harrier.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<cs><col>Miller's thumb</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A small fresh-water fish of the genus <spn>Uranidea</spn> (formerly <spn>Cottus</spn>), as the European species (<spn>U. gobio</spn>), and the American (<spn>U. gracilis</spn>); -- called also <altname>bullhead</altname>.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit</cd>. <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Millerite</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"ler*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A believer in the doctrine of William <i>Miller</i> (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.</def>

<h1>Millerite</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"ler*ite</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From W. H. <ets>Miller</ets>, of Cambridge, Eng.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called <i>hair pyrites</i>.</def>

<h1>Millesimal</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil*les"i*mal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>millesimus</ets>, fr. <ets>mille</ets> a thousand.]</ety> <def>Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; <as>as, <ex>millesimal</ex> fractions</as>.</def>

<h1>Millet</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., dim. of <ets>mil</ets>, L. <ets>milium</ets>; akin to Gr. <?/, AS. <ets>mil</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>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 <spn>Panicum miliaceum</spn>, and <spn>Setaria Italica</spn>.</def> <-- all species in this note are subtypes --> <note>&hand; <col>Arabian millet</col> is <spn>Sorghum Halepense</spn>. -- <col>Egyptian</col> <i>or</i> <col>East Indian</col>, <col>millet</col> is <spn>Penicillaria spicata</spn>. -- <col>Indian millet</col> is <spn>Sorghum vulgare</spn>. (See under <er>Indian</er>.) -- <col>Italian millet</col> is <spn>Setaria Italica</spn>, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also <altname>Hungarian grass</altname>. -- <col>Texas millet</col> is <spn>Panicum Texanum</spn>. -- <col>Wild millet</col>, <i>or</i> <col>Millet grass</col>, is <spn>Milium effusum</spn>, a tail grass growing in woods.</note>

<h1>Milli-</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"li-</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[From L. <ets>mille</ets> a thousand.]</ety> <fld>(Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.)</fld> <def>A prefix denoting a <i>thousandth part of</i>; <as>as, <ex>milli</ex>meter, <ex>milli</ex>gram, <ex>milli</ex>amp\'8are</as>.</def>

<h1>Milliamp\'8are</h1> <Xpage=924>