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ff, as an indebtedness. Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins. W. Coxe.

r to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals. Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge, n., 1 (b).

As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin.

to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified. Grew.

ls at will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time. Shak. Master of a hundred thousand drachms. Addison. We are masters of the sea. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.

lands appropriated to the use of the household. Cowell. Bouvier. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. Tennyson.

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

A money 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.