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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 ]

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 ]

[ 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. 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 ]

n. [ From W. H. Miller, of Cambridge, Eng. ] (Min.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. millesimus, fr. mille a thousand. ] Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr. meli`nh, AS. mil. ] (Bot.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.

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Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. --
Egyptian millet or
East Indian millet is Penicillaria spicata. --
Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under Indian.) --
Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass. --
Texas millet is Panicum Texanum. --
Wild millet, or
Millet grass, is Milium effusum, a tall grass growing in woods. [ 1913 Webster ]