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An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.

A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.

A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow. Water milfoil (Bot.), an aquatic herb with dissected leaves (Myriophyllum).

A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.

Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.

Militia. [Obs.]

Environment.

A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola.

Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites.

The state of being militant; warfare.

Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier. -- Mil"i*tant*ly, adv. At which command the powers militant... Moved on in silence. Milton. Church militant, the Christian church on earth, which is supposed to be engaged in a constant warfare against its enemies, and is thus distinguished from the church…

Military. [Obs.] Bacon.

In a military manner.

A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.

A military man. [Obs.] Shak.

o 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. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men. Shak.

nd; -- usually followed by against and with. These are great questions, where great names militate against each other. Burke. The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. Gibbon.