militancy 
VII ii ii 111 MI.' lih'. especially the active part, In constituted 
In i state o( continual niilit'iiii-i/. 
W. HoHtiKjae, Drvotiti- Kssays, I. x. 7. 
It i not u in'hi i I'inu' to look back upon a time when the 
nation (England] was In a normal condition of militancy 
against social injustice. f'rmde, Sketched, p. 17'i 
militant (mil'i-tant), a. [= F. militant = Sp. 
Pg. It. militants, <. L. militan(t-)s, ppr. of wmi- 
luri-, serve as a soldier: see militate.] 1. Fight- 
ing; warring; engaged in warfare; pertaining 
to warfare or conflict. 
At which command the powers militant 
. . . moved on 
In silence. MMon, t. L., vi. 61. 
2. Having a combative character or tendency; 
warlike. 
The militant nature of legal protection Is seen In the 
fact that ... it Is a replacing of individual anned force 
by the anned force of the state, always in reserve if not 
exercised. U. Spencer, Prln. of Soclol., f 522. 
Church militant. See church. 
militantly (mil'i-tant-li), adv. In a militant or 
warlike manner. 
railitart (mil'i-tar), a. [< L. militaris: see mili- 
tary.] Military'. 
Although he were a prince In militar vertne approved. 
/."., Hist. Hen. VII. 
Instruct the noble English heirs 
In politlque and militar affairs. 
B. Jonson, Underwoods, Ixtii. 
militarily (mil'i-ta-ri-li), adv. In a military or 
warlike manner; by military force ; from a mil- 
itary point of view. 
Austria is at this moment, under the treaty [of 18561, 
militarily occupying two provinces of Turkey In order ta 
reform them. If. A. Rev., CXXVII. 895. 
militarism (mil'i-ta-rizm), n. [< F. militarisms 
= Sp. militarismo ; as militar, militar-y, + -ism.] 
The military spirit ; addiction to war or military 
practices; the maintenance of national power 
by means of standing armies. 
The principles of Port Royal found some supporters . . . 
before monarchlsm and militaritm had crushed the life 
out of the nation. Encyc. Brit., VII. 675. 
Monarchy, aristocracy, militarism we could not have if 
we would, we would not have it' we could. 
A. D. White, Century's Message, p. 19. 
Who can say that the democracy will not in some sud- 
den Impulse of economy or aversion to militaritm prema- 
turely reduce the army and navy, and lay the Empire open 
to aggression from every side? 
Nineteenth Century, XX. 311. 
militarist (mil'i-ta-rist), n. [< militar, mili- 
tar-y, + -ist.] 1. bne devoted to military af- 
fairs; one proficient in the art of war. 
You're deceived, my lord; this is Monsieur Parolles, 
the gallant militarist that was his own phrase that 
had the whole theoric of war in the knot of his scarf, and 
the practice in the chape of his dagger. 
Shak., All's Well, Iv. 3. 161. 
2. One who is in favor of a standing army; 
one who advocates a warlike policy, 
military (mil'i-ta-ri), a. and n. [Formerly also 
militar; = F. militaire = Sp. Pg. militar = It. 
militarc, < L. militaris, rarely militarius, of or 
belonging to soldiers or war, warlike, (. miles 
(milit-), OL. meiles, a soldier.] I. a. 1. Hav- 
ing the position or character of a soldier ; per- 
taining to soldiers ; suitable to, characteristic 
of, or performed by soldiers; soldierly: as, a 
military man ; a military deportment or dispo- 
sition. 
He will maintain his argument as well as any military 
man in the world. Shot., Hen. V., ill. 2. 86. 
Was this your discipline and faith engaged, 
Your military obedience? Milton, P. L., iv. 965. 
Though courageous In brawls and duels, he knew noth- 
ing of military duty. Macattlay, Hist. Eng., vi. 
2. Relating or pertaining to war. to the art of 
war, or to an armed force ; adapted to or con- 
nected with a state of war; martial; warlike; 
belligerent: as, the military art; military glory; 
military history; military equipage; a military 
expedition. The military resources of a country in- 
clude both army and navy, and the phrase military office 
has been legally construed to apply to both ; but In or- 
dinary language military is used only in relation to the 
land-forces, as distinguished from the naval or sea forces. 
Both were ambitious of military glory, and showed ca- 
pacity for attaining It. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., 11. 25. 
A military force, whether intended to operate on land 
or at sea, exists primarily for purposes of war. 
J. R. Suley, Blockade and Cruisers, p. 231. 
3. Warlike in method or practice ; having re- 
lation to the usages or purposes of war; con- 
nected with or dependent upon the use of armed 
force: opposed to civil: as, a military despotism; 
military government; a military execution. 
Abbreviated n7., milit. 
Bureau of Military Justice. See bureau. Military 
architecture. See iirriiiin-tiir?. Military art, the art 
of war. (at Tactical, relating to the order ana arrangement 
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to he observed In the management of an army when It Is to 
march, to engage an enemy, or to be encamped, (ft) Tech- 
ni'-iil, including the composition, fabrication, and applica- 
tion of warlike machines, and the practice of military en- 
u'ineeririK in the erection of offensive and defensive works 
for the protection of an army, a city, or a country. This 
branch also comprises the topographical surveys, the build- 
ing of pontoon and other bridges, the projection and con- 
struction of roads, telegraph-lint-*, railroads, etc., neces- 
sary to the operations of an army in the Held. Military 
band. See&and'i. Military ceremonies. Scecxrenwmy. 
Military commission. See ormmimon. - Military 
courts, the courts of chivalry and court* martial.--- Mili- 
tary drum, the side-drum or snare-drum. Military en- 
gineering, fever, etc. See the nouns. - Military feuds. 
Nee /!(-'. Military Knight of Windsor. Same as 
Windsor Kniyht (which see, under knight). Military 
law, the body of rules and ordinances prescribed by com- 
petent authority for the government of the military state, 
considered as a distinct community. (Buthnp.) Military 
law In the United States consists of the Rules and Articles 
of War, and other statutory provisions for the government 
of persons subject to military control, to which may be 
added the unwritten or common law derived from the 
usage and custom of military service. See /aw 1 , and mar- 
tial (M)(under martial). Military mast. See nuutl. 
Military music, martial music, suitable for a military 
band and for use in connection with military evolutions. 
Military Offenses, offenses which are cognizable by a 
court martial. Military system, the rules, regulations, 
forms, etc., prescribed for the organization and adminis- 
tration of an army in the field or in garrison or camp. 
Military tenure, a tenure of land on condition of per- 
forming military service. Military testament, In Horn. 
Inn', a nuncupative will, by which a soldier might dispose 
of his goods without the forms and solemnities which the 
law requires In other cases. Statute of military ten- 
ures, an English statute of 1660, which abolished knight* 1 
service and some of the abuses and exactions of military 
tenures. = Syn. Warlike, etc. See martial. 
II. n. Soldiers generally; soldiery; officers 
of the army: commonly with the definite ar- 
ticle : as, the occasion was enlivened by the 
presence of the military. 
My lord going to the " Trumpet," in the Cockpit, White- 
hall, an house used by the military in his time as a young 
man. Thackeray, Henry Esmond, I. 14. 
militate (mil'i-tat), f. t. : pret. and pp. militated, 
ppr. militating. [< L. militatus, pp. of militare, 
(> It. militare = Pg. Sp. militar = F. militer), 
be a soldier, < miles (milit-), a soldier: see 
military.] 1. To be in conflict or at variance ; 
come into collision. 
Against everything which militated with the doctrines 
or ceremonies of his church, he hurled his anathemas. 
Whipple, Ess. and Rev., II. 90. 
Hence 2. To stand in array; have weight or 
force, as in determining anything : followed by 
against, and permissibly by in favor of: as, these 
facts militate against (or in favor of) your theory. 
Multiplicity of talents has too often militated against 
the due fulfilment of some special bent. 
W. Sharp, D. G. Rossetti, p. 1. 
militation (mil-i-ta'shon), . [< L. as if *mili- 
tatio(n-), < militare, pp. militatus, serve as a 
soldier: see militate.] A fighting; warfare; 
state of conflict. 
Repentance doth not cut down sin at a blow ; no, it Is 
a constant MUitation, A course of mortification. 
The Morning Exercise Methodized, p. 374. 
militia (mi-lish'a), . [Formerly milice, < F. 
miliee = Sp. Pg.'milieia = It. milicia, < L. mili- 
tia, military service, the soldiery, < miles (milit-). 
a soldier.] If. Military service; warfare. 
Another kind of militia I had then theirs. Baxter. 
2. Soldiery; militants collectively. [Bare.] 
Know then, unnnmber'd spirits round thee fly, 
The light militia of the lower sky. 
Pope, R. of theL, L 42. 
Hence 3. The whole body of men declared 
by law amenable to military service, without 
enlistment, whether armed and drilled or not. 
[U.S.] 
It has been necessary to call into service, not only vol- 
unteers, but also portions of the militia of the States by 
draft. Lincoln, In Raymond, p. 348. 
The regular army is supported and controlled by the 
federal government, but each state maintains its own mi- 
litia, which it is bound to use in case of internal disturb- 
ance before calling upon the central government for aid. 
In time of war, however, these mUitiat come under the 
control of the central government 
J. Finite, Arner. Pol. Ideas, p. !*. 
4. A body of men enrolled and drilled according 
to military law, as an armed force, but not as 
regular soldiers, and called out in emergency 
for actual service and periodically for drill and 
exercise. The feudal array of the middle ages was prop- 
erly a militia, and the first proceeding of modern warfare 
consisted in the gradual adoption of permanent and regu- 
lar troops, which superseded the militia, 
militiaman (mi-lish'a-man), n. ; pi. militiiiiin n 
(-men). One who belongs to the organized and 
armed militia. 
militiatet (mi-lish'i-at), f. i. [< militia + -nti -. 
Cf. militate.] 1 . To levy or raise troops : main- 
tain a standing army. 
milk 
We continue to militiale, and to raiitc light troops. 
Walpole, To Maim, Nor. lit, 1759. (Daviet ) 
2. To right as a soldier. 
The militiatuuj spirits of my country. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, III. 177. (Daaiet.) 
Milium (miri-um), n. [NL. (Tournefort, 1700), 
< L. miliiim, millet : </'///.] 1. A genus of 
grasses of the tribe Aarostidece and the subtribe 
Stinete, characterized by an ovoid glume, rigid 
or hardened about the caryopgig, and an awn- 
less flowering glume. They are annuals or perennials, 
with flat leaves and a compound panicle of one-flowered 
splkelet*. There are 5 or 6 species, natives of Europe, 
temperate Asia, and North America. The genus bean the 
common name of millet-gratt. H. e/utum, widely spread 
through the northern hemisphere, Is a tall handsome 
grass which thrives In dense shade. Its herbage Is rel- 
ished by cattle, and Its seed by birds. 
They haue the seed of Millium In great abundance. 
IlaHuyt'i t'oyaget, I. 104. 
2. [/. c.] In pathol., an affection of the geba- 
ceous glands, caused by retention of their se- 
cretion in the form of pearly or yellowish-white 
little globular bodies embedded in the skin and 
projecting slightly above its surface. 
Milium is a minute white tumour, about the size of a 
millet seed, . . . which Is mostly situated at or near thr 
free edge of the lid. J. S. Well*, DU. of Eye, p. 682. 
Miliusa (mil-i-u'sa), n. [NL. (Leschenault, 
1832), named after J. Milius Votolinas, a horti- 
cultural writer of the 16th century.] A genus 
of dicotyledonous polypetalous plants of the 
natural order Anonaeete, the custard-apple fam- 
ily, type of the tribe Milimea;. It is characterized 
by having the outside petals small, and the interior ones 
much larger, Hat, and converging at the apex. Seven or 
eight species are known, natives of eastern India, and 
perhaps of Australia. They are low or medium-sized trees, 
with flowers almost always axillary, either solitary or In 
clusters, and with the petals often transparent. 
Miliuseae (mil-i-u'se-e), n. 7)/. [NL. (Bentham 
and Hooker, 1862), '< Milima + -ete.] A tribe 
of plants of the natural order Anonaceee, typi- 
fied by the genus Miliusa. It Is characterized by 
stamens which are loosely Imbricated, and with the con- 
nective slightly or not at all dilated beyond the conspicu- 
ous dorsal cells of the anthers. There are 11 genera and 
about 65 species, all Indigenous to the tropics. 
milk (milk), 11. [< ME. i7Jt, mylk, melk, mule. 
< AS. meolc, meoliic (not *7e) = OFries. melok 
= D. melk = MLG. LG. melk = OHG. miluli. 
MHO. milich, milch, G. milch =Icel. mjolk = Sw. 
mjfilk = Dan. melk = Goth, miluks, milk ; cf. Ir. 
melg = OBulg. mleko = Pol. Bohem. mleko = 
Serv. mlijeko = Kuss. moloko = Wendish mloko, 
mela uka (all prob. borrowed from or modified ac- 
cording to the Teut., having k for the reg. g) (cf. 
W. llaeth, L. lac(t-) = Gr. >o/a (JO/OAT-), milk, 
of diff. origin: see lactatf, etc., galaxy, etc.); 
derived from a common Indo-Eur. verb, namely. 
AS. melcan (pret. mealc, pp. molceti) = D. mel- 
ken = MLG. LG. melken = OHG. melclian, MHG. 
melchcn, melken, G. melken = Goth, "milkan 
(not recorded), a strong verb partly displaced 
by, or merged in, a later weak verb, E. milk = 
OFries. mellca = Icel. mjolka, etc., depending on 
the noun; cf. OBulg. mliza, mlesti,eic., = Kuss. 
meliziti = Lith. milsti = L. mulgcre = Gr. aptts- 
yuv, milk, = Skt. ^/ marj= Zend ^ marez, stroke, 
rub. Hence milk, v., and milch, a.] 1. A white 
or bluish-white liquid secreted by the mamma- 
ry glands of the females of the class Mammalia, 
and drawn from their breasts for the nourish- 
ment of their young. It is opaque, with a slight pe- 
culiar odor and a bland sweetish taste. It* chemical con- 
stituent* in different mammals are qualitatively alike, but 
quantitatively vary much, not only In different species, but 
also in different individuals, or even at different times 
in the same individual. The 
amount of water varies from 
about 80 to 90 per cent., the 
residue being composed of albu- 
minoids (casein and lactopro- 
tein), fat, milk-sugar, and cer- 
tain wilts, chiefly phosphates. 
Under the microscope it ap- 
pears as a clear transparent 
fluid, in which a large number 
of minute globules are suspend- 
ed. When allowed to rest, these 
globules rise to the surface, 
forming a yellowish stratum, 
the cream, which consists main- 
ly of the fat, mixed with some 
casein, and retaining some serum. In the cow about 5 per 
cent of the milk is cream, in the human female lesa, In 
the mare scarcely more than 1 per cent By churning, the 
globules unite to form butter, leaving the buttermWc, 
which is essentially a solution of milk-sugar, with the salt* 
and some casein and butter. The milk from which cream 
Is separated to *KfrMd mitt, which when left to Itself (If 
not too cold) develops, from the action of a certain bac- 
terium, lactic acid, which separates the casein In a coagu- 
lated condition called curd* ; the same effect Is produced 
by some other acids, and by rennet, the prepared Inner 
membrane of the stomach of a calf. The liquid separated 
from the coagulum is called irhrii, and contain* chiefly 
Drop at Milk, -.bowing fot 
globules Ihlghlr nugnBcd). 
