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The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.

Half deisticsl; bordering on deism. S. Miller.

Old age. [R.] "Senectitude, weary of its toils." H. Miller.

, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction. Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. Selden. Sits the wind in that quarter Sir W. Scott.

ecret skepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized. S. Miller.

An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grrinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands. [Eng.] Soc and sac (O. Eng. Law), the full right of administering justice in a manor or lordship.

A toll. See Soc, n., 2. [Obs.] Great sooken had this miller, out of doubt. Chaucer.

To kick or toss up the heels. The miller spurned at a stone. Chaucer. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. Gay.

steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller.

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill. -- Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge wher…

but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.

ible, while the hard matrix in which they are imbedded has weathered from around them. H. Miller.

A fine grade of copper sulphide obtained at a certain stage in copper smelting. -- White miller. (Zoöl.) (a) The common clothes moth. (b) A common American bombycid moth (Spilosoma Virginica) which is pure white with a few small black spots; -- called also ermine moth, and virgin moth. See Woolly bear, under Woolly.…

The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode. [R.] Miller.