Search the Dictionary

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.

al cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.

A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampère.

The thousandth part of one ampère.

A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.

Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles. A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note. Evelyn.

A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.

Thousandfold. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.

A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce.

A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.

The thousandish part of a micron or the millionth part of a millimeter; -- a unit of length used in measuring light waves, etc.

articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.] No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.

A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

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 Mill. High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, o…

A very great number; an indefinitely large number. Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. Locke.

One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire.]

A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [Humorous] Holmes.