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<h1>Millinet</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil`li*net"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.</def>

<h1>Milling</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mill"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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 <er>Mill</er>.</def>

<cs><col>High milling</col>, <cd>milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product.</cd> -- <col>Low milling</col>, <cd>milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding.</cd> -- <col>Milling cutter</col>, <cd>a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes.</cd> -- <col>Milling machine</col>, <cd>a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters.</cd> -- <col>Milling tool</col>, <cd>a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.</cd></cs>

<h1>Million</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"lion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., from LL. <ets>millio</ets>, fr. L. <ets>mille</ets> a thousand. See <er>Mile</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under <er>Hundred</er></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A very great number; an indefinitely large number.</def>

<blockquote><b>Millions</b> of truths that a man is not concerned to know. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The mass of common people; -- with the article <i>the</i>.</def>

<blockquote>For the play, I remember, pleased not the <b>million</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Millionaire</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil`lion*aire"</hw> <tt>(?; 277)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>millionnaire</ets>.]</ety> <def>One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>millionnaire</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Millionairess</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil`lion*air"ess</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire.</def> <mark>[Humorous]</mark>

<i>Holmes.</i>

<h1>Millionary</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"lion*a*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; <as>as, the <ex>millionary</ex> chronology of the pundits</as>.</def>

<i>Pinker<?/on.</i>

<h1>Millioned</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"lioned</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Multiplied by millions; innumerable.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Millionnaire</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil`lion`naire"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>Millionaire.</def>

<h1>Millionth</h1> <Xpage=924>

<hw>Mil"lionth</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Millionth</h1> <Xpage=924>

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