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A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.

A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.

A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a strong and fragrant and a bitter, aromatic taste. They are tonic, febrifugal, and in large doses emetic, and the volatile oil is carminative.

A mile traveled by a single car, taken as a unit of computation, as in computing the average travel of each car of a system during a given period.

Car miles collectively.

See Camomile.

Comparison or illustration by contraries.

e or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness. Facsimile telegraph, a telegraphic apparatus reproducing messages in autograph.

A homilist.

rse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. [R.] His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.

The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.

Homiletical. [Obs.]

road during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.

A geographical mile. See Mile.

The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.

Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens. Kirwan.