‖n.; pl. E. Armillas L. Armillæ [ L., a bracelet. ] 1. An armil. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A ring of hair or feathers on the legs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. armillarius, fr. L. armilla arm ring, bracelet, fr. armus arm: cf. F. armillaire. See Arm, n. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, a bracelet or ring; consisting of rings or circles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Armillary sphere, an ancient astronomical machine composed of an assemblage of rings, all circles of the same sphere, designed to represent the positions of the important circles of the celestial sphere. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Dr. Barker, the inventor. ] A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a span of 2000 years.
Syn. -- bimillennium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to the bimillennium. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a span of 2000 years.
Syn. -- bimillenary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the year 2000 a. d. [ PJC ]

‖interj. [ Arabic, in the name of God! ] An adjuration or exclamation common among the Muslims. [ Written also Bizmillah. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

See Buhrstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ See 1st Craze. ] A mill for grinding tin ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- said of cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF., dim. of fermeil, fermail, clasp, prob. fr. OF. & F. fermer to make fast, fr. ferme fast. See Firm. ] A buckle or clasp. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A commercial establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; a barroom; -- a disparaging term suggesting a cheap or disreputable bar.
Syn. -- barroom, bar-room, bar, saloon, taproom. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Gromwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ From Joseph Miller, a comic actor, whose name was attached, after his death, to a popular jest book published in 1739. ] A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i. e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none. Pole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Mammillated. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Mammilae [ L., dim. of mamma a breast. ] (Anat.) The nipple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. mammilaire. See Mammilla. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Mammilla. ] 1. Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammae. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Bounded like a nipple; -- said of the apex of some shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mammilla + -form. ] Having the form of a mammilla. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Mammilla + -oid. ] Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Micro- + millimeter. ] The millionth part of a meter. The millionth part of a meter is now termed a micron, and the word micromillimeter does not conform to the IS use of the prefix micro-. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ L. mille a thousand. Cf. Mile. ] A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. mühle, OHG. mulī, mulīn, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. √108. See Meal flour, and cf. Moline. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or indented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A pugilistic encounter. [ Cant ] R. D. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. Short for Treadmill. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

11. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

12. A building or complex of buildings containing a mill{ 1 } or other machinery to grind grains into flour. [ PJC ]

Edge mill,
Flint mill, etc. See under Edge, Flint, etc. --
Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. --
Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace. --
Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. --
Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones. --
Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill. --
Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel. --
Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows. --
Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth. --
Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. --
Gin mill, a tavern; a bar; a saloon; especially, a cheap or seedy establishment that serves liquor by the drink. --
Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers. --
Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps. --
To go through the mill, to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Milled p. pr. & vb. n. Milling. ] [ See Mill, n., and cf. Muller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To beat with the fists. [ Cant ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To roll into bars, as steel. [ 1913 Webster ]

To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Zool.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To undergo hulling, as maize. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; -- usually used with around. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. To take part in a mill; to box. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. 1. (Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A kind of stout pasteboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having been subjected to some process of milling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: Having multiple fine grooves on the rim, in the direction from obverse to reverse; -- of coins. Coins of silver and gold were milled to make it impossible for uncrupulous persons to shave small pieces from the edge without detection. [ PJC ]

Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. --
Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ It. mille thousand + fiore flower. ] Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Millenary. ] Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The doctrine of Millenarians. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. millenarius, fr. milleni a thousand each, fr. mille a thousand: cf. F. millénaire. See Mile. ] Consisting of a thousand; millennial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian.“During that millenary.” Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium{ 2 }; millenarianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes in the millennium{ 2 }. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL., fr. L. mille a thousand + annus a year. See Mile, and Annual. ] 1. A period of one thousand years. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: The period of a thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: A long period of happiness, righteousness, and prosperity, usually considered as being in the indefinite future. [ PJC ]

4. A thousandth anniversary; especially, Each first day of January falling in a year which is a multiple of one thousand, such as in 1000 a. d. or 2000 a. d.; as, the second millenium will be celebrated on January 1, 2000; also used attributively, as a millenium celebration. Technically, if the calendar of the Common Era (Anno Domini) is considered as beginning on January 1, 1 a. d., then the millenium will fall in each year ending in 001, as in 1001 a. d. or January 1, 2001 a. d.. However in the common culture, the change of the first digit of the year from 1 to 2, as from 1999 to 2000 is considered as the more symbolic event, especially since the dating of the beginning of the Christian era is somewhat arbitrary, having been an attempt to fix the date of the birth of Christ, and being considered by scholars as being in error by as much as five years. [ PJC ]

n. (Computers) An error in the coding of certain computer programs which store the year component of the date as two digits, assuming that the first two digits are 19, rather than as a complete number of four digits; when such programs are used after January 1, 2000, the date may be misinterpreted, causing serious errors or total failure of the program; -- called also year 2000 bug, year 2000 problem and Y2K bug. In the several years leading up to the year 2000, large corporations and other users of computers in total spent many billions of dollars correcting this error in the programs they use. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. millepeda; mille a thousand + pes, pedis, foot: cf. F. mille-pieds. ] (Zool.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [ Written also millipede and milliped. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mille thousand + porus pore: cf. F. millépore. ] (Zool.) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) A fossil millepore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A milling machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller. (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Miller's thumb. (Zool.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species (Uranidea gobio), and the American (Uranidea gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand. [ 1913 Webster ]