millenarlsm 
millenarismt (mil'e-na-rizm), . [< F. milli'- 
iinrinnii'; as niillt'iiar(i/) + -i*i.] Millenary 
doctrine or belief; inillenarianism. 
millenary (mil'e-na-ri), . and n. [= F. wit- 
li'-iinin' = Sp. inili'iniriii = Pg. It. millcnario, < 
LL. iinl/i'iiiinii.i, containing a thousand, < IMI'/- 
li in, a thousand each, < I;, unlit, a thouganil: 
see mill".} I. . Consisting of or pertaining 
to a thousand, specifically a thousand years; in 
a restricted sense, of or pertaining to the mil- 
lennium. 
We arc apt to dream I lint (iocl will make his saints reign 
here as kings in a mOaton kingdom. 
Jtr. Taylor, Works (ed, 1838), I. 827. 
For I foretell that millenary year. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., Ded., 1. 81. 
Millenary petition, a petition presented by l>ut ;i 
thousand Puritan ministers to Janies I. on his progress 
to London In April, 1003, asking for certain changes in 
ceremonial, etc. 
II. .; pi. millenaries (-TIZ). 1. An aggregate 
of a thousand ; specifically, a period of a thou- 
sand years; in a restricted sense, the millen- 
nium. 
Where to fix the beginning of that marvelous mtZfenory, 
and where to end. 
lip. Hall, Breathings of the Devout Soul, 1 15. 
2f. A commander or leader of a thousand men. 
Likewise the dukes assigne places vnto eitery mUlenarie, 
or conductor of a thousand souldlers. 
UaUuyft Voyage*. I. 60. 
3f. One who expects the millennium. See 
niillcnarian. 
The doctrine of the millenaries ... In the best ages 
WHS esteemed no heresy. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), II. 815. 
millennial (mi-len'i-al), a. [< millennium + 
-al.] Consisting of or relating to a thousand 
years; pertaining to a millennium, or specifi- 
cally to the millennium : as, a millennial period ; 
millennial expectations. 
To be kings and priests unto God Is the characteristic of 
those that are to enjoy the millennial happiness. 
Bp. Burnet. 
millennialist (mi-leu'i-al-ist), n. [< millennial 
+ -ix/.~] One who believes in a millennial reign 
of Christ on earth ; a chiliast. 
millennianism (mi-len'i-an-izm), n. [< * milieu- 
ni/iii (< HI illrii niunt + -an) + -isw.] Millenari- 
anism. 
At the outset [of Chrlstlanityl a crass miilennianitm 
clouded the vision of very many. Prog. Orthodoxy, p. 156. 
millenniarism (mi-len'i-a-rizm), . [< 'millen- 
nial- (< millennium + -ar 2 } + -ism.] Millenari- 
anism. 
millennistt (mil'en-ist), . [= F. milleniate ; 
L. mille, a thousand, + nnnus, year: see annual."] 
1. An aggregate of a thousand years; a period 
or interval of one thousand years: as, the mil- 
lennium of the occupation of Iceland celebrated 
in 1874. 
To us nothing seems more unlikely, more Inconceivable, 
than two millenniutujf of high Egyptian civilization, . . . 
while all the rest of the world was sunk in darkness. 
Q. Jlatdinmn, Origin of Nations, I. 151. 
Specifically 2. In theol., a period during 
wnich the kingdom of Christ will be established 
upon the earth and will predominate over all 
other authority. The phrase "a thousand years," in 
Rev. xx. 1-5, has been understood literally, or (on the prin- 
ciple that in Scripture prophecies a day stands for a year, 
and the Jewish year contained 360 days) as representing 
860,000 years. It is generally regarded as Indicating an 
indefinite but long period, and belief in such a period is 
universal in the Christian church. But whether this pre- 
dominance of the kingdom of Christ will be accomplished 
gradually by the gospel, and will precede Christ's second 
coming, or will follow his second coming and he accom- 
plished by It, is disputed. This question divides theolo- 
gians into two schools, the postmillenarians, who hold the 
former view, and the premillenarians, who hold the latter ; 
while many hold that the millennium represents the gos- 
pel dispensation or reign of the church, and has accord- 
ingly already prevailed for many centuries. 
milleped, milliped (mil'e-ped, mil'i-ped), n. 
[= F. iiiillepifili = Srt. milpies = Pg. millepedes = 
It. millepiedi,< L. millepeda, < mille, thousand, + 
pes (.ped-) = E. foot.] 1. A thousand-legs; a 
myriapod of the suborder CMognntlia or inpln- 
poda, : so called from the very numerous feet, 
though these are not nearly a thousand in num- 
ber. The feet are about twice as numerous as those of 
the similar creatures called ccntipcds, there being two 
A Milteped (Cambala antntUta). (Line shows natural size.) 
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pairs Instead of one pair to most of the segments ; the lega 
are also shorter, ami t lie hody n Inud. r ..ml mon- jlimin 
cal. Mlllepeds are found in water, ami in wet 01 dilTmi 
places beneath lugs, stones, etc. I'niike some of tin- cent i- 
peds, all are quite harmless animals. Some of the com- 
monest belong to the family Julitta, as Jvlu* tabulonu. 
The tufted millepeds are J'vlyxfniilir; the false millepeds, 
I'lilyilrnnulir. IMH-mlllcpcds bflonK t" 'hi- family tffoflW- 
ritlic ; they are comparatively Hlmn .mil sti.nt, and can roll 
l In rnaelvcs up Into ball, like the wood lice of the genus 
Armatlillit. See Cltiliymitlut, and cuts under Myriaptda 
and thuunand-lej*. 
2. Some small crustacean with many legs, as 
an isopodous slater; a wood-louse. 
Also millepede, millipede. 
Millepora (mi-lep'o-rft), n. [NL. : see ////>- 
pore.] The typi- 
cal genus of tin- 
family Millepori- 
dte, so called from 
the numerous 
pores upon the sur- 
face. These are the 
openings of as many 
tubular cells or cavi- 
ties which traverse 
the hard coralline sub- 
stance, and are them- 
selves divided in their 
deeper parts by close- 
set transverse parti- 
tions or tabular dis- 
seplmenU, vertical sep- 
ta being rudimentary 
Mtlttfora atcKornis. ( Ir absent. 
millepore (mil'e-por), . [= F. millepore = Sp. 
mittpora = It. millepora, < NL. Millepora, < L. 
mille, a thousand, + porus, a passage: see 
pore.] A coralline hydrozoan of the family 
Milleporid(F. The mlllepores were long supposed to 
be corals, and such is their appearance and the part they 
play In the formation of reefs. They belong, however, to a 
different class of animals, the I/yarozoa (not Actinnzoa), 
being among the few members of their class which form 
a hard calcareous polypary or polypidora like the stone- 
corals, and the leading representatives of the order called 
Hydrocorallince (which see). The Incrustlng substance 
forms a dense deposit upon the outer surface of the rami- 
fied hydrosome. There are two kinds of zootds or poly- 
pites: short broad alimentary zooids (gastrozooids) with I 
or 6 tentacles, surrounded each by a zone of from 5 to 20 or 
more long mouthless zooids (dactylozoolds) with numer- 
ous tentacles, having no ampulla;. The zooids are dilated 
at their bases, and there give olf tubular processes which 
ramify and inosculate, giving rise to a thin hydrosome. 
Milleporidse (rail - e - por ' i - de). n . pi. [NL., < 
Millepora + -ida 1 .] A family of hydrocoralline 
hydrozoans, typified by the genus Millepora. 
See millepore and Hydrocorttllince. 
milleporiform(mil-e-por'i-f6rm), a. [< NL. 
Millepora + L. forma, form.] Having the form 
or appearance of a millepore; milleporine. 
Milleporina (mi-lep-6-ri'na), n. pi. [NL., < 
Milli-porn + -inn 2 .] Same as Milleporidir. 
milleporine (mil'e-po-rin), a. Pertaining to the 
.VilleporidtKf or having their characters ; resem- 
bling a millepore; milleporiform. 
milleporite (mil'e-por-It), . [< millepore + 
-ite 2 .] A fossil millepore. 
miller (mil'er), M. [< ME. miller, meller, millere. 
ntellere, earlier mijlnir, mylnere, milnrre (a form 
remaining in the surname Milner),< AS. 'mylnrre 
(not recoiled; another term was mylntccard, 
'mill- ward') = OS. mtileniri = Fries, meller = 
D. mulder, molenaar = MLG. molner, moire, mol- 
ler = OHG. mulinari, MHG. miilnare, mulner, 
Q. milller (as a surname also Milliner) = Icel. 
mylnari = Sw. mjolnare = Dan. mriller, < LL. 
molinarius, a miller, < molina, a mill: see mill 1 , 
n.] 1. One who grinds grain in a mill; one 
who keeps or who attends to a mill, especially 
a grain-mill. 
More water glideth by the mill 
Than wots the miller of. 
Shale., Tit, And., II. 1. 87. 
2. A milling-machine. 3. A moth whose wings 
appear as if dusted over with flour or meal, like a 
miller's clothes ; hence, almost any small moth, 
such as fly about lights at night. Common mfflers 
in the I'nited States are Spilosoma virginiea, a moth whose 
larva is one of the woolly-bear caterpillars, and Hvphantria 
fuifii. the web-worm moth. The little yellowish moths 
of the genera Crambu* and Botit are also commonly called 
millers. See cuts under Crambidce and Hyphantria. 
4. A fish, the eagle-ray, ifyliobatis aquila; a 
mill-skate. 5. The hen-harrier,Circitsfynew. 
[Prov. Eng.] 6. A young flycatcher. C. Swain- 
son, Brit. Birds, 1885, p. 49. [Local, Eng.] 
Cross miller. See crow', n. 
milleringt (mil'er-ing), n. [< miller + -ing 1 .] 
The dust of a flour-mill. 
And she would meal you with milleriny 
That she gathers at the mill. 
Karl Richard (Child's Ballads, III. 273). 
Millerism (mil'er-izm), ii. [< Miller (see Mil- 
l< rite 1 ) + -ism.] The doctrines of the Millerites. 
mill-furnace 
Millerite 1 (miivr-it >, . [< ./- f.) + 
-ili-.\ A dJHi-iplc of the Aiiierii-:iii William 
.Miller, \\lio from IKUlill Ins ilenth in lK4!>pub- 
lidy inter|ireteil the SerijitureH as fixing the 
second advent of Christ and the beginning of 
the millennium in the immediate future (at 
first about lx4.'i). His followers form a still ex- 
isting denomination of Adventists. 
millerite- (mil'er-it), n. [Named after \V. II. 
Miller (Mod 1880),an English crystalN^rapher.] 
Native nickel sulphid.a niim-ral liavinga bronze 
color and metallic luster, often ocenrringin tufts 
of capillary crystals, and hence called hair-py- 
rites, camllary pyrites. It Is found also In Incrusta- 
tions with fibrous or radiated structure ; in the latter form 
it is a valuable nickel ore. 
miller's-coatt (mil'erz-kot), M. A coat of fence 
in use in the sixteenth century, apparently a 
buff-coat or similar defense of leather. 
miller's-dog (mil'erz-dog), n. A kind of shark 
or dogfish, (laletig canig. 
miller B-thumb (mil'erz-thum), w. I. A fish, 
Cottus aobio, of the family t'ottida: The name Is 
due to the fancied resemblance of the head to the form a 
miller's thumb Is popularly supposed to assume from the 
frequent sampling of meal with the hand. 
2. Any fresh-water sculpin of the genus Vra- 
nidea ; one of the little star-gazers, of which 
there are several species, as {'. ricliardxoni. 
[U. 8.] 3. The bib (a fish), Gadus Iiucu*. 
[Great Britain.] 4. The golden-crested wren, 
Kegulii* erintatus; the thumb-bird. [Eng.] 
5. The willow-warbler, I'tujllosfopus trocliilug. 
millesimal (mi-les'i-mal), a. [= F. miVesimo 
= Sp. milesimo = Pg. ft. millei<iio, < L. mille- 
simug, the thousandth, < mille, a thousand : see 
(i7/ 2 .] Thousandth; consisting of thousandth 
parts: as, millesimal fractions. 
millet (mil'et), >i. [< F. millet, millet, dim. of 
7, millet: see mill$.] 1. A cereal grass, I'ani- 
cum miliaeenm, known from antiquity, and still 
cultivated in the East and in southern and cen- 
tral Europe. It Is an annual, from 2 to 4 feet high, with 
profuse foliage, the flowers abundant, In open nodding 
panicles. 'I he grain is one ol the best for fowls, and af- 
fords a nutritious and palatable table-food. As cultivated 
in the I'nited States, it is mostly used for (odder, and el*e- 
where it is less sowed than formerly. 
2. One of several other grasses : generally with 
a prefixed descriptive. See below Arabian or 
evergreen millet, a variety of Indian millet. [Local, 
U. 8.] Cat-tall, East Indian, Egyptian, pearl mil- 
let, in the southern Vnited States, a tall gniss. I'enninetuw 
tpicatum, there cultivated as a forage-plant. In India it 
serves as a cereal. German, Hungarian millet. See 
Italian millet. Indian millet, African millet, a stout 
cereal grass commonly known as Soryhum vulgare, but 
now regarded as part of a mulllfoim species, Andropoymi 
Sorghum, which includes among Its varieties the common 
broom-corn and sorghum. It is extensively cultivated In 
the Mediterranean region and the Orient, occupying the 
place of a staple grain. The seed properly treated mnkes 
a bread of good quality, and Is a good grain for quadrupeds 
and fowls. The plant serves also for green fodder. '1 his 
is the durra or aoura of Africa and India. It has been 
introduced to some extent into the t'nlted States, where 
it is sometimes called coffee- or chocolate -corn, tieemise of 
its attempted use as a substitute for coffee. Also called 
guinea-corn, Icajir-corn. Italian millet, Setaria Itnlica. 
originally an Asiatic grass : its variety Grrmanica is known 
as German or Hungarian millet and Bengal or Hungarian 
irmn. (Seegraa.) Its seeds are suited to cage-birds and 
fowls, and It is to some extent used as a food-grain ; in 
America It is raised mostly for forage. Millet coda or 
khoda, the grain of I'aspalum Krobicvlatum, an East In- 
dian cereal. 
millet-grass (mil'et-gras), . See Milinm. 
mill-eye (mil'i), w. The eye or opening in the 
cases of a mill at which the meal is let out. 
A noble and seemly baron's mill, . . . that casts the 
meal through the mill-eye by forpits at a time. 
Scott, Pirate, xi 
mill-feeder (mil'fe'd*r). . A projection on a 
mill-spindle which agitates a spout beneath the 
hopper, thus shaking the grain into the eye of 
the runner. 
mill-file (mil'fil), ii. A thin flat file used in 
machine-shops for lathe-work and draw-filing. 
E. H. Knight. 
mill-furnace (mil'fer'nas), n. In iron-works, a 
furnace in which the puddled bar, or the higher 
grades of malleable iron, are reheated in order 
to be rerolled or welded under the hammer or 
mill-rolls. 
