millionnaire 
millionnaire, ". s-c niiiii<mir<-. 
millionth (mll'ygnth), a. and . [< ii//ioi + 
-'/'*. I I. ". Ten hundred tlinusainlth; being 
one of a million. 
II. a. One of a million parts; the quotient 
of unity divided by a million; a ten hundred 
tlinusainllli part. 
milliped, . SIT mitii i>ni. 
millipede (mil'i-i>ed), n. Same as miHi'/ml. 
millistere (mil'i-star), . [< F. utiltixirre, < L. 
milli'. a t housand (see milti-), + F. (^rc, a stere.] 
In the iiii'tric xi/sti-ni, a unit of dry measure, the 
one thousandth part of a stere, equivalent to 
1 cubic decimeter or 61.023 cubic inches. It is 
not in practical use. 
millivolt (mil'i-volt), . [< L. mille, a thousand, 
+ E. volt.'] The thousandth part of a volt. 
mill-jade (mil'jad), n. A mill-horse. 
Would you have me stalk like a mill-jade, 
All day, (or one that will not yield us grains? 
/;. Jaruan, Alchemist, ill. 2. 
millman (mil 'man), n. ; pi. millnten (-men). 
One who is employed in a mill. 
The millmen are also unable to work with their usual 
vigour. The Engineer, LXV. 58S. 
mill-money (mil'muu'i), . Milled or coined 
money. 
What should you, 
Or any old man, do, wearing away 
In this world with diseases, and desire 
Only to live to make their children scourge-sticks, 
And hoard up mill-money ? Beau, and Fl., Captain, L 3. 
mill-mountain.! (mil'moun'tan), n. A Euro- 
pean flax, I/untm cntharticttm. 
millocrat (mil'o-krat). n. [< mill 1 + -o-crat as 
in aristocrat, etc.] A wealthy mill-owner; a 
manufacturer who has a wide influence from his 
wealth or the number of people in his employ- 
ment. [Rare.] 
The true blood-suckers, the venomous millocrat*. 
Bulwer, Caxtons, ii. 4. (Dame*.) 
millocratism (mil'o-krat-izm), H. [< milloerat 
+ -torn.] The rule of millocrats. Bulwer. 
millont, . An obsolete form of melon 1 . 
mill-pick (mil'pik), . A tool for dressing mill- 
stones that is, giving them a corrugated or 
otherwise roughened surface. Also called mill- 
Ktoiie-liftmmer, millstone-pick. 
mill-pond (mil'ppnd), . A pond or reservoir 
of water for use in driving a mill-wheel. 
mill-pool (mil'pol), n. [< ME. 'millepol, < AS. 
mylen pol, mylenpul, < mylen, mill, + pol, pool.] 
A mill-pond. 
mill-post (mil'post), n. A stout post bearing 
some essential relation to a mill, as a post 
forming the vertical shaft of a windmill, and 
especially, in some forms of windmill, as the 
post-mill, the post upon which the entire mill 
is supported, or a post upon which the cap of a 
smock-mill, bearing the sails, turns. 
They [the trees of New England] are not very thick, yet 
many of them are sufficient to make Mill- puts; some be- 
ing three font and a half in the Diameter. 
5. Clarke, Four Plantations in America (1670), p. SO. 
Out of doors reigned Molly Mills, . . . with her short 
red petticoat, legs like millpoxttt. 
Lady Holland, Sydney Smith, vii. 
mill-race (mil'ras), . The current of water 
that drives a mill-wheel, or the channel in 
which it flows from the dam to the mill. 
millreat, millreet (mil're), M. Obsolete forms 
of milrrif*. 
mill-ream (mil'i-em), . A package of hand- 
made paper containing 480 sheets, of which the 
two outer quires (48 sheets) are imperfect. A 
ream of 480 sheets of perfect paper is known as 
a ream of insiden. [Eng.] 
mill-line, ". In Jier. See/er de moitl> /. 
mill-rolls (mU'rolz), n. pi. The rolls employed 
in bringing puddled bar-iron into suitable shape 
for the market. 
raillround (mil'round), . A monotonous round 
of labor like that on a treadmill. 
How sick he must have been of the eternal miilnmnd 
seed-time and harvest. 
R. Broughton, Cometh up as a Flower, v. 
mill-rynd (mil'rind), . The rynd of a mill- 
stone. See rynd, and mill 1 , 1. 
mill-sail (mil sal), H. A sail of a windmill, in 
windmills there are usually four of these sails, of canvas, 
extended on the sail-frames or " whips," and sometimes 
provided with reefing devices by which the surfaces ex- 
posed to the action of wind can be varied in extent to 
adapt them to variations in the force of the wind. See 
ictiuhnUl and iritui-it'ltcrl. 
mill-scale (mil'skal). . An incrustation of a 
black oxid of iron formed on iron in the pro- 
cess of being rolled, just as forge-scale is on 
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that which is being forged. In the one case it 
|ipels (iff in the rolling; in the other it is thrown 
off by the blows of the IIHIMMHT. 
mill-sixpence (mil'siks'peiiH), . An English 
silver coin, of the value of sixpence, produced 
by the mill-and-screw process. Bee null"/ 
iitiini:!/, tinder tuillfd. 
Fal. Pistol, did you pick Matter Blender's purse? 
Sen. Ay, by these gloves, did he, ... of wren groat* 
In mill-sixpences. Sha*. , H. W. of W., 1. 1. 168. 
mill-skate (mil'skat), . The eagle-ray, hlylio- 
hntiii aquila. 
mill-spindle ( mil' spin 'dl), H. The vertical 
shaft or spindle of a grinding-mill, by which the 
runner or re- 
volving mill- 
stone is sup- 
ported. See 
mil ft, 1. 
mill-stankt 
(mil ' stangk), 
n. A mill-pond 
or -dam. 
And that the 
authority given by 
the Commissioner 
of Sewers did not 
extend to Mills, 
Nill-stanln, Cau- 
seys, etc., erected 
before the Kcign 
of King E. 1. 
Cote of Chester 
[Mill, 10 Coke, 
[188, b. 
millstone 
(mil'ston), n. 
[Early mod. 
E. also niil- 
Ktone; < ME. 
mytston, mylle- 
stone,mullstmi, 
melstan, myln- 
ston,<.A8.mi/l- 
emtan (= b. 
mmcnsteen = 
, a. spindle; ft, bush: c. rynd; a, step, ink. 
. niOIH- ortrampot; t, bridge-tree ; /.lighter-screw; 
= MHG. ' hani| -whl which operates the lighter- 
miihtfin, Q. 
miihl-stein =Dan. mollcsten), a millgtone,< mylen, 
mill, + stdn, stone : see milft and stone.] One of 
a pair of cylindrical stones used in a mill for 
grinding grain. The kind of stone best adapted for 
this use is known as bvrstone, and is found in France and 
Modes of messing Millstones. 
n. Radial and circular dress. *. Quarter dress, c. Dress for iron 
grinding-plate. tt. Curved and circular dress. 
in Georgia, U. 8. The two stones are placed one over the 
other ; and In the operation of grinding one of them re- 
mains at rest and is called the bra, while the other, usually 
the upper stone, revolves and is called the runner. (See 
miin, 1.) The face of a millstone is cut with lines or chan- 
nels called /urrouv, which lead from the center to the cir- 
cumference and have flat spates between them called land. 
The furrows and land are together called the dregs; they 
are arranged in various ways. A sunken space about the 
eye of the stone la called the bosom. 
As don thise rokkes or thise myliie stones. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1384. 
Bolting-millstone. See bolting?. Fairy millstone. 
See /ory. Lava millstone. See (nro. Millstone- 
dress, the arrangement of the furrows on the face of a 
millstone. To see Into or through a millstone, to see 
with acuteness, or to penetrate into abstruse subjects. 
Your eyes are so sharpe that you can not onely laote 
through a mustone, but cleane through the mind. 
I.ijli/, Enphues and his England, p. 287. 
To weep or drop millstones*, to be insensible to emo- 
tion : remain haru and atony under or in view of the deep- 
est affliction. 
Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes drop tears. 
Shale., Rich, in., 1. 3. 854. 
millstone-balance (mil'ston-bal'ans), . A 
weight so placed as to balance any inequalities 
of weight in a millstone. 
milreis 
millstone-bridge (inil'ston-brij), w. The Imi- 
-ing the c\c uf ;[ tiiill-tnne ami supporting 
it on the head of the Hpindle; a balanoe-ryml. 
/;. U. K mi/Ill. 
millstone-curb (mil'stoii-kcrb), N. The rover- 
ing of the stones used in grinding; a busk or 
liurst. A'. //. Kiiiijlit. 
millstone-dresser (niil'ston-dres'er), M. 1. A 
workman whose business is to dress millstones. 
2. A machine for forming millstones, espe- 
cially for cutting the furrows on the face of a 
millstone. Such machines range from hand-appliance* 
having pivoted hammers for picking and chipping the 
stone to large power-machines employing rotary disks and 
mandrels armed with diamonds or Doris, and include agreat 
variety of machine! which cause cutters to travel In radial 
lines over the face of the stones, as well aa lathes In which 
the stone is made to revolve before traversing tool-rest* 
carrying cutting-mandrels In rapid revolution. Smaller 
machines are portable, and are guided by hand over the 
atone while the cutting-tool is revolved at a high speed by 
means of a belt. 
millstone-driver (mil'ston-dri'ver), n. The 
device on a millstone-spindle which drives the 
runner by impinging against its bail. 
millstone-feed (mil ston-fed), n. A device by 
which the quantity of grain fed to a millstone 
is regulated, as by means of an adjustable gate 
in the aperture of the hopper. 
millstone-grit (mil'stou-grit). n. A silicious 
conglomerate rock ? so called because it has 
been worked for millstones in England. It con- 
stitutes one of the members of the Carboniferous group, 
underlying the true coal-measures, and overlying the 
mountain limestone. In Wales and southwestern Eng- 
land it is known as "farewell rock," because when the 
miners strike It they bid farewell to profitable seams. The 
millstone-grit Is an important and persistent member of 
the Carboniferous series both In Europe and in the United 
States. In parts of England it attains a thickness of over 
f>,000 feet. Where the series to which this name is given 
Is developed to this extent, however, ft contains interca- 
lated beds of shale and clay and even of coal. In Penn- 
sylvania the millstone-grit Is sometimes called the Great 
or Pottsville Conglomerate. At Pottavflle, on the eastern 
edge of the anthracite fields, It is over a thousand feet 
thick, but it thins very much in going west. 
The Fourth Sand-Rock is the well-known No. XII., or 
the Great Conglomerate. It has its representation in the 
millstone grit beneath the European coal. It is the floor 
of the true coal measures, an immense preparatory out- 
spread of sand and pebble-stones of every variety, but 
chiefly pure white quartz, and of every size, from the 
minute mustard seed and pepper corn to the hen's egg 
and in the Snsquehanna region even the ostrich egg. 
J. P. Lesley, Coal and its Topography, p. 70. 
millstone-hammer (mil'ston-ham'er),!!. Same 
as mill-pick. 
millstone-pick (mfl'rtfa-pik), . Same as 
mill-pick. 
millstone-ventilator (mil'ston-ven'ti-la-tor), 
n. A blower and connecting pipes for forcing 
a blast through the eye of a runner-stone for 
the purpose of cooling the stones and meal. 
mill-tall (mil'tal), n. The current of water 
leaving a mill-wheel after turning it, or the 
channel through which it runs; a tail-race. 
The .Vill-tiiil. or Floor for the water below the wheels, 
is wharfed up on either side with stone. 
Defoe, Tour through Great Britain, I. 386. (Dariet.) 
mill-tootht (mil'toth), n. A grinder; a molar. 
mill-ward (mil'ward), n. [< ME. mi/irnrrf, mele- 
ward, < AS. myleiHceartl, a miller, < mylen, mill, 
-r- wrard, keeper.] The keeper of a mill. 
mlllweir (mil'wer), n. [< ME. *milletrrre (t), 
< AS. 'mylentetr, myleicer (= G. miihltcehr), a 
millweir, < mi/len, mill, + trer, a weir: see 
tm>.] See ireir. 
mill-wheel (mil'hwel), w. [< ME. "millfteliele 
(f), < AS. mylenhtreol, mylenhireotrul, a mill- 
wheel, < mylen, mill, + Ittcedl, litreoflut, wheel.] 
A wheel used to drive a mill; a water-wheel. 
mill-work (mil'werk), w. 1. Machinery used 
in mills or manufactories. 2. The designing, 
construction, arrangement, and erection of ma- 
chinery in mills or manufactories. 
millwright (mil'rit), w. An engineer who de- 
signs, constructs, and erects mills, their mo- 
tors, machinery, and appurtenances, particu- 
larly flouring- and grist-mills. Millwrights' com- 
pass. See campaa. 
millwrighting (mil'ri'ting), n. The work or 
business of a millwright. 
Engineering and miUvrighting, though synonymous, 
are often two distinct branches in a shop. 
Engineer, LXVII. S3. 
milnet, . An obsolete form of milft. 
milord (mi-16rd'), H. [F. milord, formerly also 
milort (Cotgrave), = Sp. milord (pi. milores), < 
E. my lord.] A continental rendering of the 
Kn^lish my lord. 
milrayt, " See mi' 
milreis (mil'res). H. [Formerly milrea, milrat/. 
milli-ray (F. milleret Cotgrave); < Pg. milreis, 
