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A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).

A kind of stout pasteboard.

or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

Having been subjected to some process of milling. Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.

Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.

Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.

The doctrine of Millenarians.

Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.

Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.

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.

One who believes in the millennium. [Obs.] Johnson.

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.

A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped.]

A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

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 Hydrocorallia.

A fossil millepore.

One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.

A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.

Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.