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

oney of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

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

Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A measure of weight, 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.

The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred

The thousandth part of one weber.

es are entered. -- Minute glass, a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand. -- Minute gun, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning. -- Minute hand, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.…

To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.