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A sieve, esp. a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter. B. Jonson.

loth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. -- Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.

A depression round the eye of a millstone. Knight.

An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicating beverage made from hemp seed, darnel meal, and water. [Written also bosa, bozah, bouza.]

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. Knight.

The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. Knight.

A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]

e lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.

ranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb.

res into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc. -- Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

pitolian Jove." Macaulay. Capitoline games (Antiq.), annual games instituted at Rome by Camillus, in honor of Jupter Capitolinus, on account of the preservation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth year.

denly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam.

A rude, rustic man; a churl. The miller was a stout carl. Chaucer.

t: to hew; to mark as if by cutting. My good blade carved the casques of men. Tennyson. A million wrinkles carved his skin. Tennyson.

mma genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill.

To give expression to in a chirping tone. Cheep and twitter twenty million loves. Tennyson.

The millennium.

One who believes in the second coming of Christ to reign on earth a thousand years; a milllenarian.

Millenarian. "The obstruction offered by the chiliastic errors." J. A. Alexander.

A standing still or idle (of mills, factories, etc.).