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ct; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.

A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.

A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke. [Colloq.] It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i. e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none. Pole.

The quality of being absent-minded. H. Miller.

Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. Miller.

llegorical being . . . that kind of language which says one thing, but means another. Max Miller. Al`le*gor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Al`le*gor"ic*al*ness, n.

. The Homeric mythology, as well as the Homeric language, has surely its antecedents. Max Miller.

lity of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller.

were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

Any gaseous envelope or medium. An atmosphere of cold oxygen. Miller.

A blow; a stroke. [Scot.] H. Miller.

To drink; to tipple. [Obs.] This miller hath . . . bibbed ale. Chaucer.

s blood; to emit or let drop, as sap. A decaying pine of stately size, bleeding amber. H. Miller.

A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

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.

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

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.

A fish; -- also called miller's thumb.

st conjectural fears to come into me. Shak. A slight expense of conjectural analogy. Hugh Miller. Who or what such editor may be, must remain conjectural. Carlyle.