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

[ From L. mille a thousand. ] (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampère. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a sensitive ammeter for detecting small currents, graduated in milliamperes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Milli- + ampère. ] (Elec.) The thousandth part of one ampere. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille. ] A thousand millions; -- usually called billion in the United States. See Billion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. milliarius containing a thousand, fr. mille thousand: cf. F. milliaire milliary. See Mile. ] Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles. [ 1913 Webster ]

A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Milliaries [ L. milliarium. See Milliary, a. ] A milestone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. mille thousand. ] A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mille thousand + E. fold times. ] Thousandfold. [ R. ] Davies (Holy Roode). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. milligramme; milli- milli- + gramme. See 3d Gram. ] A measure of mass and weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, very nearly equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. millilitre; milli- milli- + litre. See Liter. ] A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is very nearly equal to a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061025 of an English cubic inch, or to .033815 of an American fluid ounce. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. millimètre; milli- milli- + mètre. See 3d Meter. ] A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Milli- + micron. ] The thousandth part of a micron or the millionth part of a millimeter; one nanometer; -- a unit of length sometimes used in measuring light waves, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. an advertising measure; one agate line appearing in one million copies of a publication. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From Milaner an inhabitant of Milan, in Italy; hence, a man from Milan who imported women's finery. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who designs, makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man milliner, a man who makes or deals in millinery, that occupation having been at one time predominantly performed by women; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The business of work of a milliner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product. --
Low milling, milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding. --
Milling cutter, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes. --
Milling machine, a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters. --
Milling tool, a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile. ] 1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1, 000, 000. See the Note under Hundred. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number. [ 1913 Webster ]

Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The mass of common people; -- with the article the. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the play, I remember, pleased not the million. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. millionnaire. ] One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [ Written also millionnaire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [ Humorous ] Holmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits. Pinkerton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Millionaire. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The same Milleped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. millistère, from milli- milli- + stère. ] A liter, or cubic decimeter. [ 1913 Webster ]