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A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. [Scot.] H. Miller.

g down or thrown down; precipitation. The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.

To hide; to skulk. [Scot.] He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller.

e. The clayey soil around it was dibbled thick at the time by the tiny hoofs of sheep. H. Miller.

to make seem remote. His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space. H. Miller.

Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white. Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

, a sympathizer with or adherent of, and the like, and frequently used in ridicule; as, a Millerite; a Benthamite.

- Jest book, a book containing a collection of jests, jokes, and amusing anecdotes; a Joe Miller.

A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller. [Scot.]

One who leads a pack horse; a miller's servant. [Obs. or Local]

A small lake; a pond. [Scot.] A pond or lochan rather than a lake. H. Miller.

he genus Bychoda, having fringed wings. -- Moth hunter (Zoöl.), the goatsucker. -- Moth miller (Zoöl.), a clothes moth. See Miller, 3, (a). -- Moth mullein (Bot.), a common herb of the genus Verbascum (V. Blattaria), having large wheel-shaped yellow or whitish flowers.

g of, motes. [Written also mottie.] [Scot.] The motty dust reek raised by the workmen. H. Miller.

The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer.

f the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.

e occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce. The miller was a stout carl for the nones. Chaucer. And that he calls for drink, I 'll have prepared him A chalice for the nonce. Shak. Nonce word, "a word apparently employed only for the nonce". Murray (New English Dict. ).…

That which jets out or projects from anything. [R.] H. Miller.

d, third, and fourth proof spirits respectively. -- Proof staff, a straight-edge used by millers to test the flatness of a stone. -- Proof stick (Sugar Manuf.), a rod in the side of a vacuum pan, for testing the consistency of the sirup. -- Proof text, a passage of Scripture used to prove a doctrine. proof coin or p…

r Ætobatidæ. The common European species (Myliobatis aquila) is called also whip ray, and miller. -- Electric ray, or Cramp ray, a torpedo. -- Starry ray, a common European skate (Raia radiata). -- Sting ray, any one of numerous species of rays of the family Trygonidæ having one or more large, sharp, barbed dorsal s…

tion and friendship with God really form the basis of all rational and true enjoyment. S. Miller.