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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.

Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits. Pinker

Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.] Shak.

Millionaire.

Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

The same Milleped.

A liter, or cubic decimeter.

The thousandth part of one weber.

See Milreis.

A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

es used for grinding grain or other substance. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deut. xxiv. 6.

The business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.

A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

One who serves a mitrailleuse.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.

A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty. Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill. South.

A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill. J. R. Green.