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A mill. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mill. [Obs.] Chaucer.

est Indies, is often cultivated, and sometimes called Turk's cap. (b) The related genus Mamillaria, in which the stem is tubercled rather than ribbed, and the flowers sometimes large. See Illust. under Cactus.

A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebræ; a mammillary process.

metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric. Common meter (Hymnol.), four iambic verses, or lines, making a stanz…

by the prefixes, deca-, hecto-, kilo-, and myria-; successive parts by deci-, centi-, and milli-. The prefixes mega- and micro- are sometimes used to denote a multiple by one million, and the millionth part, respectively. See the words formed with these prefixes in the Vocabulary. For metric tables, see p. 1682.…

One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampère.

A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.

The millionth part of a farad.

The millionth part of an ohm.

A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.

A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.

The millionth part of one weber.

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.

The same Milliolitic. Miliolite limestone (Geol.), a building stone, one of the group of the Paris basin, almost entirely made up of many-chambered microscopic shells.

lar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.

olly from ore; in distinction from cinder pig, which is made from ore mixed with forge or mill cinder. Raymond.

an agent, an instrument. Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua. Ex. xxiv. 13. I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes. Shak.