mill-gang 
mill-gang (inil'gang), n. In warping, that part 
of tho warj) which is made by a descending and 
ascending course of the threads round the warp- 
ing-mill. E. H. Knight, 
mill-hand (mil'hand), n. A person employed 
in a mill. 
mill-head (mil'hed), . The head of water by 
which a mill-wheel is turned. 
mill-holm (mil'hom), H. A low meadow or field 
in the vicinity of a mill, or a marshy place about 
a mill-dam. 
mill-hopper (mirhop'er), n. In a grinding- 
mill, a hopper from which grain is supplied to 
the stones Mill-hopper alarm an automatic device 
for giving notice to the miller, usually by a bell, when the 
grist in the hopper is nearly exhausted. 
mill-horse (mil'hprs), . A horse (often blind) 
used to turn a mill. 
'Tis a dull thing to travel, like a mill-home, 
Still in the place he was born in, lam'd and blinded. 
Fletcher (and another), Queen of Corinth, ii. 4. 
milli-. [XL. mille, millia, milia, a thousand : see 
million*.'] An element meaning 'thousand,' 
also used for ' a thousandth part,' especially 
in words relating to physics : as, millimeter (the 
thousandth part of a meter). 
milliampere (mil'i-am-par"), . [< L. mille, a 
thousand (see milli-), + E. ampere.] An elec- 
trical unit equal to the thousandth part of an 
ampere. 
milliard (mil'iard), n. [< F. milliard, < mille 
(< L. mille, thousand) + -ard.] A thousand mil- 
lions: as, a milliard of francs. This word became 
familiar in English through the payment by France to 
Germany, after the close of the war of 1870-1, of an in- 
demnity of five milliards of francs (about $1,000,000,000). 
milliare 1 (mil-i-a're), n. [L., < mille, a thou- 
sand: see milli-.] An ancient unit of length, 8 
stadia; a mile. 
milliare 2 (mil'i-ar), n. [< F. milliare, < L. mille, 
a thousand (see milli-), + F. are, an are: see 
are?.] A unit of surface in the metric system, 
the one thousandth part of an are, equivalent 
to 154.07 square inches. 
military (miTi-a-ri), a. and?;. [= F. milliaire, 
< L. miUarius, milliarius, containing a thousand, 
neut. milliarium, miliarium, the number one 
thousand, a milestone, < mille, pi. milia, a thou- 
sand: see mil ft, mile.] I. a. Pertaining to the 
ancient Koman mile of a thousand paces or five 
thousand Roman feet; marking a mile. 
Before this was once placed a miliary column, supposed 
to be set in the center of the citty. 
Evelyn, Diary, Nov. 4, 1644. 
II. n. A milestone ; specifically, a stone or 
column set up to form a point of departure in 
measuring distances. 
When we approached Sidon, I saw, about a mile from 
the town, an antient Roman military in the road ; ... it 
is a round pillar of grey granite. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. 85. 
millier (mel-ya'), n. [F., < L. mille, a thousand : 
see milli-.'] In the metric system, a weight 
equal to a thousand kilograms, or 2,205 pounds 
avoirdupois (nearly a ton). It is the weight of 
one cubic meter of water at 4 C. 
millifoldt (mil'i-fold), a. [< L. mille, a thou- 
sand, + E. -fold.'] Thousandfold. 
His kisses milUfold 
Bewray his lone and louing diligence. 
Dairies, Holy Roode, p. 27. (Danes.) 
milligram, milligramme (mil'i-gram), . [= 
It. milttgramma, < F. milligramme, < mille, a 
thousand (see milli-), + gramme, a gram: see 
gram' 2 .] The thousandth part of a gram, equal 
to 0.015432, or about ? V, of a grain. 
milliliter, millilitre (mil'i-ie-ter), n. [= It. 
millilitro, < F. millilitre, < mille, a thousand (see 
milli-), + liti-e,&\iter: see liter 2 .] A French mea- 
sure of capacity containing the thousandth part 
of a liter, equal to 0.06102 of a cubic inch. 
millimeter, millimetre (mil'i-me-ter), n. [= 
It. millimetre < F. millimetre, < mille, a thousand 
(see milli-), + F. metre, meter: see mtterS.] The 
thousandth part of a meter, equal to 0.03937 
inch, or nearly ^ inch. It is denoted by mm. : 
as, 25.4 mm. is 1 inch. 
milliner (mil'i-ner), n. [Formerly also milla- 
ner, millener, millenier; prob. orig. Milaner, a 
trader from or with Milan (formerly spelled 
Millaine, Milteync, etc.) in Italy, famous for its 
silks and ribbons, as well as for its cutlery; < 
Milan + -er 1 . Cf. Milanese. The term man- 
tna-maker, usually cited in this connection, has 
no relevancy, not being connected with Mantua 
in Italy. The word milliner was formerly ex- 
plained as designating " one having a thousand 
small wares to sell" (Minsheu), as if < L. mille- 
3766 
niiriiin, containing a thousand, < mille, a thou- 
sand: see millenary.] 1. Formerly, a man who 
dealt in articles for women's wear ; according to 
Johnson, " one who sells ribands and dresses for 
women" ; now, in common usage, a woman who 
makes and sells bonnets and other head-gear 
for women ; also, in England, one who furnishes 
both bonnets and dresses, or complete outfits. 
No Milliner can so fit his customers with Gloues. 
Shak., W. T. (folio 1623), iv. 4. 192. 
To conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow 
their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought stom- 
acher with a smoaky lawn or a black Cyprus 1 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour (ed. Whalley, 1756), 
[L3. 
2f. Formerly, one who made or sold armor of 
Milan ; hence, a dealer in armor. 
After the year 1500 there were great shops, where armour 
was sold by the milliners, or armourers of Milan, and by 
others ; and whole suits of armour are frequently found ex- 
actly like each other, as they were made for sale to the first 
comer, and not for any person in particular. 
R. Curzm, Archseol. Inst. Jour., XXII. 6. 
Milliner's fold, a strip of velvet, silk, or the like, folded 
near both edges, and then again so as to bring one of the 
two original folds above the other. Milliner's needle, 
a long slender needle used in trimming bonnets, etc. 
millinery (mil'i-ner-i), n. [< milliner + -y' A .] 
1. The articles made or sold by a milliner. 2. 
The industry of making bonnets and other 
head-dresses for women. This work was for- 
merly in the hands of men, but is now almost 
exclusively a women's occupation. 
Those who are cunning in the arts of millinery and 
dressmaking. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, xvii. 
millinet (mil'i-net), n. [Irreg. < millin(er) + 
-et.] 1. A sort of coarse, stiff, thin muslin. 
2. A machine-made net. E. H, Knight. 
milling (mil'ing), . [Verbal n. of mill 1 , v.] 
1. The process of grinding, or subjecting ma- 
terials to the action of the machinery of a 
grinding-mill. Specifically 2. The manufac- 
ture of cereals into flour or meal. The manufac- 
ture of fine flour is now carried on by two distinct meth- 
ods, respectively called low milling and high milling. Low 
milling prevailed almost universally until a recent period ; 
but it is now largely superseded by high milling, by which 
an increased product and a much purer quality of flour are 
obtainable, especially from wheat inferior to the higher 
grades. In low milling the grain is ground only once and 
then bolted. In high milling it is subjected to repeated 
grindings. The earlier grinding or grindings decorti- 
cate the grain, which, being subjected after each grind- 
ing to screening and blowing in the middlings purifier, 
is freed from adherent impurities, and from parts which 
envelop the finer nutritious portions. The latter thus 
cleansed are called semolina (half-ground). The semolina 
is then subjected to grinding, cylinder-milling, or disinte- 
gration milling, to complete its conversion into fine flour. 
Cylinder-milling, also called roller-milling, is the manu- 
facture of flour by the use of cylinder-mills. Disintegra- 
tion milling is the manufacture of flour or meal by the 
use of the disintegrator. See milli. 
3. The operation of upsetting the edge of a 
coin-blank to form the milled edge ; also, the 
operation of putting the series of small trans- 
verse ridges and furrows on the edge of an 
otherwise finished coin, or on a screw-head to 
adapt it for easy turning with the fingers. See 
milled screw, under screw. 4. A method of 
shaping metals in a milling-machine, by pass- 
ing the metal under a serrated revolving cylin- 
der or cutter. 5. In metal-working, a method 
of ornamenting metallic surfaces by treatment 
in a lathe with ribbed tools, which produce 
ridged surfaces. 6. A method of softening 
and opening the pores of hides by placing them 
with some tan-liquor in a wooden drum which 
is caused to revolve. 7. The felting or fulling 
of a cloth to thicken it. 
The term milling embraces all those operations which 
are calculated to effect the felting of the woolen fibres in 
the fabric by means of pressure or friction. 
Benedikt, Coal-tar Colours (trans.), p. 54. 
8. In pottery, the operation of grinding and 
mixing the slip. 9. A thrashing; a fight; a 
beating. [Slang.] 
One blood gives t'other blood a milling. 
W. Combe, Dr. Syntax, ii. 2. 
I determined to box it out with destiny, and put myself 
in a Cribb-like attitude for a milling-m&tc}i with my for- 
tunes. Mrs. Gore, Cecil, p. 158. 
10. The act of playing around in a circle : said 
of a school of fish. Also called cart-wheeling. 
High milling, in flmir-manvf., a method of milling in 
which the wheat is subjected to a succession of slight 
partial crushing operations, the product being sifted and 
sorted after each operation. Low milling, the older pro- 
cess of close grinding with the stones as near together as 
possible, as opposed to the more modern high milling. 
milling-cutter (mil'mg-kufer), . Same as 
milling-machine. 
milling-machine (mil'ing-ma-shen"), . 1. A 
power machine-tool for shaping metal and cut- 
ting the teeth of gears by means of a rotating 
millionize 
serrated spindle or cylindrical cutter. Ithaca 
movable table, to which the work is iixed and on which it 
is brought to the cutter ; and it is fitted with index-plates 
and other appliances for securing accuracy in the work. 
The position occupied by the iiittliiiy-machine in mod- 
ern practical mechanics is almost as important as that oc- 
cupied by the lathe or planing-machine. 
Joshua Hose, Practical Machinist, p. 338. 
2. A machine for impressing on coins a milled 
edge or legend corresponding to the milling. 
Millingtpnia (mil-ing-to'ni-a), w. [NL. (Carl 
Linne, filius, 1781), named after Thomas Mil- 
lington, a professor at Oxford.] A genus of 
bignoniaceous trees, with corky bark, opposite, 
2- to 3-pinnate leaves, and handsome white 
flowers, the corolla-tube often 2 to 3 inches 
long, disposed in corymbs at the ends of the 
branches. There is but one species, II. hortensis, the 
East Indian cork-tree, the exact original habitat of which 
is not known, but which has been cultivated in India 
from the earliest records. See cork-tree. 
milling-tool (mil'ing-tol), n. A small indented 
roller used to mill or nurl the edges of the heads 
of screws ; a nurling-tool. 
million 1 (mil'yon), n. and . [< ME. millioun, 
milion = D. mittioen, miljoen = G. Sw. Dan. mil- 
lion, < OF. (and F.) million = Pr. milio = Sp. 
milion = Pg. milhao = It. milione, millione (> ML. 
millio(n-)), a million, aug. of mille, < L. mille, a 
thousand: see milli-.] I. n. 1. The number of 
ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand. 
Coueyte. not his goodes 
For milioHS of moneye ; morther hem vchone. 
Piers Plowman (\), iii. 255. 
O, pardon! since a crooked figure may 
Attest in little place a million. 
Shak., Hen. V., Pro!., L 16. 
2. The amount of a thousand thousand units of 
money, as pounds, dollars, or francs: as, he is 
worth a million; millions have been wasted in 
preparation for war. 3. A very great number 
or quantity, indefinitely. 
For we are at the stake, 
And bay'd about with many enemies ; 
And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, 
Millions of mischief. Shak., J. C., iv. 1. 51. 
There are millions of truths that men are not concerned 
to know. Locke. 
The million, the great body of the people; the multi- 
tude ; the public ; the masses. 
For the play, I remember, pleased not the million ; 'twas 
caviare to the general. Shak. , Hamlet, ii. 2. 457. 
Three-million bill, in U. S. hist., a bill passed in 1847 
appropriating three million dollars for the purchase of 
land from Mexico. It was introduced in the House of 
Representatives with the Wilmot Proviso (see proviso) as 
a rider, and passed by the Senate after rejection of the 
rider. 
II. a. [Strictly a collective noun: see hun- 
dred.'] A thousand times one thousand; ten 
hundred thousand : as, a capital of a (or one) 
million dollars ; a country of ten million in- 
habitants. 
million 2 (mil'yon), 11. An obsolete or dialectal 
form of melon 1 . 
millionaire, millionnaire (mil-yon-ar'), . [= 
D. G. millionair = Sw. millionar = Dan. millio- 
ncer; < F. millionnaire (= Sp. millionario, millo- 
nario = Pg. It. millionario), one who owns a 
million, < million, a million: see million 1 .] A 
man worth a million dollars, pounds, francs, 
etc. ; an owner of a million or of millions. 
The plain unsceptered king, the man of gold, 
The thrice illustrious threefold millionaire, 
Mark his slow-creeping, dead, metallic stare. 
0. W. Holmes, The Banker's Dinner. 
millionary (mil'yon-a-ri), a. [= F. million- 
naire; as million 1 + -ary.] Pertaining to or 
consisting of millions: as, the millionary chro- 
nology of the Pundits. Imp. Diet. 
millioned (mil'yond), a. [< million 1 + -ed?.] 
1. Multiplied by millions. [Rare.] 
Time, whose million'd accidents 
Creep in 'twixt vows and change decrees of kings. 
Shak., Sonnets, cxv. 
2. Having millions. 
The million'd merchant seeks her in his gold. 
P. Whitehead, Honour, a Satire. 
millionism (mil'yon-izm), w. [< million 1 + 
-ism.] The state or'condition of having millions. 
Billionism or even mUlionism must be a blessed kind of 
state. 0. W. Holmes, Elsie Venner. vii. 
millionist (mil'von-ist), H. [< million 1 + -ist.] 
A millionaire. 
A commercial millionist. Smtthey, Doctor, ccxxxiii. 
millionize (mil'yon-iz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. mil- 
lionized, ppr. miliionizing. [< million 1 + -ize.] 
To accustom to millions. Jtttrirx. 
To our now millionized conceptions the foregoing ac- 
compts appear to be in a very modernte ratio. 
Archceologia, XXXIII. 201. 
