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tuberant on the lower furface, which is glaucous. It is 
an annual plant, native of Huanuco in Peru ; and flowers 
at Madrid from September to December. 
Juflieu, deceived by dry fpecimens, made a diftinft 
genus of this plant, under the name of Flaveria; but in 
the living plant the ligula of the female floret is apparent. 
The calyx is fometimes two-leaved and two-flowered, and 
then one is male or imperfeft hermaphrodite, and one fe¬ 
male. Sometimes it is four-parted and many-flowered, 
having five male and one female floret. Now and then 
there is only a Angle floret, which is owing to the abor¬ 
tion of the reft. Neither is the calyx very large, nor is it 
always three-parted. The male florets alfo exceed two, 
and in the firft fpecies are commonly feven or nine. The 
generic charafters therefore of Milleria fliould be cor¬ 
rected thus: 
“ Calyx Ample, many-flowered, two or three-parted. 
Corolla of the hermaphrodite tubular, with a five-parted 
border; of the female, ligulate, emarginate, or trifid. 
Seed ftriated, folitary in the male, none in the others. 
Down none. 
Propagation and Culture. Sow the feeds early in the 
fpring, on a moderate hot-bed. When the plants are 
about two inches high, tranfplant each into a leparate 
pot filled with light rich earth. Plunge them into a mo¬ 
derate hot-bed of tanner’s bark. Shade them until they 
have taken root; and water them frequently. Then 
raife the glaffes every day to give them a large fhare of 
free air, when the weather is warm-; and continue'to water 
them duly, for they are very thirfty plants. In a month 
they will rife to a confiderable height; and fliould then be 
fhifted into larger pots, and plunged into the bark-bed, 
where they may have room to grow, efpecially the firft 
fort. In the middle of July they will begin to flower ; 
and the feeds will be ripe in a month or fix weeks after. 
Gather them when they begin to change of a dark-brown 
colour, for they foon fall off. Thefe plants will continue 
flowering till Michaelmas, or later, if the feafon prove fa¬ 
vourable; but, when the cold of autumn comes on, they 
foon decay. 
MILLERO'CHES, a fmall ifland in the river St. Lau¬ 
rence. Lat.45. 5. N. Ion. 75. 40. W. 
MILLEROL'LE, f. An oil and wine meafure at Mar- 
feilles, — 1 si Englilh gallons nearly, and weighing about 
, 1221b. avoirdupois. 
MIL'EERY, a town of France, in the department of 
the Rhone and Loire : twenty-one miles north-eaft of 
St. Etienne, and feven 1 ’outh of Lyons. 
MIL'LES (Jeremiah), F. R. A. S S. a learned divine 
and antiquary, was born at High Cleer, in Hamplhire, in 
7713, of which place his father was minifter. He fuc- 
ceeded Dr. Lyttleton as dean of Exeter, and alfo as prefi- 
dent of the Society of Antiquaries, to whole Archasologia 
he was a great contributor, as he likewife was to the Phil. 
Tranf. of the Royal Society. Dr. Milles was a zealous 
champion for the genuinenefs of the Rowley poems, of 
which he printed an edition in 4to. with glolfarial anno¬ 
tations. The dean died in 1784, aged 71 years. Phil. 
Tranf. air. fol. xi. p. 438. 
MILLESIMAL, adj. [millejimus, Lat.] Thoufandth ; 
confifting of thoufandth parts.—To give the fquare root 
of the number two, he laboured long in millefimhl frac¬ 
tions, till he confeffed there was no end. Watts on the 
Mind. 
MILLESSO'W, a mountain of Bohemia, in the circle 
bf Leitineritz. 
MIL'LET, J'. [milium, Lat. mil and millet, Fr.] A 
plant. See Panicum. — The millet hath a loole divided 
panicle; and each Angle flower hath a calyx, confifting of 
two leaves, which are inftead of petals, to proteft the (la¬ 
mina and piftiilum of the flower, which afterwards be¬ 
comes an oval (hilling leed. This plant v.'as originally 
brought from the eaftern countries, where it is ftiil great¬ 
ly cultivated, from whence we are annually furniflved 
with this grain, which is by many perfons much efteemed 
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for puddings. Miller.—Millet is diarrhetic, cleanfing, and 
ufeful in difeafes of the kidneys. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 
—A kind of filh ; unlefs it be mifprinted for mullet .— 
Some filh are gutted, fplit, and kept in pickle; as whiting, 
mackerel, millet. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. 
MIL'LET (Indian). See Holcus. 
MIL'LET CYP'ERUS-GRASS. See SciRrus. 
MIL'LET GRASS. See Milium. 
MIL'LEVANT, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Pomerelia : fixteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Dantzic. 
MIL'LEVILLE, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Warmeland : twenty-five miles fouth of Carlftadt. 
MIL'LEVILLE, a town of New Jerl’ey : two hundred 
miles north-eaft of Walhington. 
MILLIA'RE, or Millia'rium, f. [from the Lat. mille, 
1000.] A thoufand paces ; a mile. 
Milliare Aureum, was a gilded pillar in the forum 
of Rome, at which all the highways of Italy met, as one 
common centre. From this pillar the miles were counted, 
and at the end of every mile a ftone was put down. The 
milliary column was erefted by Augultus Csefar; and, as 
we are informed by travellers, is ftiil to be feen. 
MILLIARIS'INON, f. A filver coin of the Romans, of 
about the value of one fhilling and three-pence. Phillips, 
MIL'LINER. See Millener. 
MIL'LING, f. The aft of beating up in a mill; the 
aft of ftamping or poiifliing in a mill; an operation other- 
wife called fulling. — Milling, or throwing, of filk, is the 
laft preparation of filk before dyeing; ferving to twill it, 
more or lefs, according to the work for which it is intended. 
Chambers. 
MILLINGTO'NIA. See Mallingtonia, vol. xiv. 
MIL'LION, f. [Fr. from mille, Lat.] The number of 
an hundred myriads, or a tiioufand thouland; 1,000,000 ; 
Within thine eyes fat twenty thoufand deaths. 
In thy hands clutch’d as many millions ; in 
Thy lying tongue both numbers. Shahefpeare. 
A proverbial name for any very great number.—That the 
three angles of a triangle are equal to two right ones, is 
a truth more evident than many of thofe propofitions 
that go for principles ; and yet there are millions who 
know not this at all. Locke. —There are millions of truths 
that a man is not concerned to know. Locke. 
She found the polifh’d glafs, whole fmall convex 
Enlarges to ten millions of degrees 
The mite, invifible elfe. Philips. 
MIL'LION BANK. See Bank, vol. ii. p. 682. 
MIL'LIONED, adj. Multiplied by millions : 
Time, whole million'd accidents 
Creep in ’twixt vows, and change decrees of kings. 
Shahejpeare, Sonnet 115. 
MIL'LIONTH, adj. The ten hundred thoufandth.— 
The firft embrion of an ant is fuppoled to be as big as 
that of an elephant; which neverthelels can never arrive 
to the millionth part of the other’s bulk, lientlcy. 
MIL'LO, [Heb. fulnefs.] A part of Mount Zion at its 
extremity ; and therefore called Millo in the city of David. 
2 Chron. xxxii. 5. It is uncertain whether Millo, Judges 
ix. 20. denotes a place ; if it did, it lay near Shechem. 
MILLO'T (Claude Francis Xavier), a well-known 
French writer, was born at Bel'an$on, March 1726, and 
was for fome time a Jefuit. He was conlecrated for the 
pulpit, and continued to preach after he left the fociety : 
but the weaknefs of his voice, his timidity, and the awk- 
wardnefs of his manner, not permitting him to continue 
in this profelfion, he relinquilhed it, although he had 
preached Advent-fermons at Verfailles, and Lent-lermons 
at Lunevilie. The marquis de Felino, minifter of Parma, 
had inftituted an hiftorical clafs for the benefit of the 
young nobility ; and, at the delire of the duke de Niver- 
nois, he gave the charge of it to the abbe Millot. The 
minifter having Occalioned a kind of rebellion among the 
people by iome innovations which he had made in the 
ftate, 
