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A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

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.

Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ment or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance. We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart. Pope.

Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." Skelton.

A kind of high shoe anciently worn. [Written also moyle.]

Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds.

One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.

A women who makes nailes.

A manufactory where nails are made.

An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.

The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.

One of a group of leucocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes. -- Neu"tro*phil"ic (#), a., Neu*troph"i*lous (#), a.

The great river of Egypt. Nile bird. (Zoöl.) (a) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The crocodile bird. -- Nile goose (Zoöl.), the Egyptian goose. See Note under Goose, 2.

Any one of a series of cyanogen compounds; particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia.

Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable. Prior.