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- English Word Milliard Definition A thousand millions; -- called also billion. See Billion.
- English Word Milliaries Definition of Milliary
- English Word Milliary Definition Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.
- English Word Milliary Definition A milestone.
- English Word Millier Definition A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.
- English Word Millifold Definition Thousandfold.
- English Word Milligram Definition Alt. of Milligramme
- English Word Milligramme Definition A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.
- English Word Milliliter Definition Alt. of Millilitre
- English Word Millilitre Definition A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce.
- English Word Millimeter Definition Alt. of Millimetre
- English Word Millimetre Definition A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.
- English Word Milliner Definition Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.
- English Word Milliner Definition A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
- English Word Millinery Definition The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
- English Word Millinery Definition The business of work of a milliner.
- English Word Millinet Definition A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.
- English Word Milling Definition of Mill
- English Word Milling Definition 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.
- English Word Million Definition The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred.