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Consisting of milk. [Obs.]

Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.

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

Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

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

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

Consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures. "Mimic hootings." Wordsworth.

An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers.

Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.

A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.

A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, minutes. [Obs.] Fuller.

Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection. "A miscellaneous rabble." Milton. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ness, n.

becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay; also, a casting made by this process; -- called also wrought-iron casting.

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.

Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve. [R.]

in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.

Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill.

The year used by Mohammedans, consisting of twelve lunar months without intercalation, so that they retrograde through all the seasons in about 32½ years. The Mohammedan era begins with the year 622 a.d., the first day of the Mohammedan year 1332 begin Nov. 30, 1913, acording to the Gregorian calendar.…

Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.