Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 47
Miliola (n.) A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.
Miliolite (n.) A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola.
Miliolite (a.) The same Milliolitic.
Miliolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites.
Militancy (n.) The state of being militant; warfare.
Militancy (n.) A military spirit or system; militarism.
Militant (a.) 好戰的；富於戰鬥性的；激進的；交戰中的 Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.
Militant (a.) Disposed to warfare or hard-line policies; "militant nations"; "hawkish congressman"; "warlike policies" [syn: {militant}, {hawkish}, {warlike}].
Militant (a.) Showing a fighting disposition; "highly competitive sales representative"; "militant in fighting for better wages for workers"; "his self-assertive and ubiquitous energy" [syn: {competitive}, {militant}].
Militant (a.) Engaged in war; "belligerent (or warring) nations" [syn: {belligerent}, {militant}, {war-ridden}, {warring}].
Militant (n.) 好鬥者；富有戰鬥性的人；激進分子 [C] A militant reformer [syn: {militant}, {activist}].
Militant (a.) 激進的；行動積極的；好戰的，好鬥的 Active, determined, and often willing to use force.
// Militant extremists.
// The group has taken a militant position on the abortion issue and is refusing to compromise.
Militar (a.) Military.
Militarily (adv.) In a military manner.
Militarism (n.) A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
Militarism (n.) The spirit and traditions of military life.
Militarist (n.) A military man.
Militarization (n.) 軍事化；軍國主義化；備戰 Act of assembling and putting into readiness the military forces for war or other emergency.
Syn: mobilization, mobilisation, militarisation.
Militarization (n.) Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops" [syn: {mobilization}, {mobilisation}, {militarization}, {militarisation}] [ant: {demobilisation}, {demobilization}].
Military (a.) Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
Military (a.) Performed or made by soldiers; as, a military election; a military expedition.
Military (n.) The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
Military (a.) (B2) 軍事的；軍用的 Relating to or belonging to the armed forces.
// Foreign military intervention.
// Military targets/ forces.
// Military uniform.
Military (a.) 富有軍隊特點的 Typical of the armed forces.
// Military precision.
Military (n.) the Military (C1) 武裝部隊；軍方 The armed forces.
// The military has opposed any cuts in defence spending.
Militated (imp. & p. p.) of Militate.
Militating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Militate.
Militate (v. i.) To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with.
Militia (n.) 民兵部隊，義勇軍；國民軍 [the S] [G] In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service; specifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in emergencies.
The king's captains and soldiers fight his battles, and yet . . . the power of the militia is he. -- Jer. Taylor.
Militia (n.) Military service; warfare. [Obs.] -- Baxter.
Militia (n.) Civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army [syn: militia, reserves].
Militia (n.) The entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service; "their troops were untrained militia"; "Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia" -- United States Constitution.
Militia. () The military force of the nation, consisting of citizens called forth to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrection and repel invasion.
Militia. () The Constitution of the United States provides on this subject as follows: Art. 1, s. 8, 14. Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
Militia. () To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia, according to the discipline prescribed by congress.
Militia. () Under the clauses of the constitution, the following points have been decided.
Militia. () If congress had chosen, they might by law, have considered a militia man, called into the service of the United States, as being, from the time of such call, constructively in that service, though not actually so, although he should not appear at the place of rendezvous. But they have not so considered him, in the acts of congress, till after his appearance at the place of rendezvous: previous to that, a fine was to be paid for the delinquency in not obeying the call, which fine was deemed an equivalent for his services, and an atonement for disobedience.
Militia. () The militia belong to the states respectively, and are subject, both in their civil and military capacities, to the jurisdiction and laws of the state, except so far as these laws are controlled by acts of congress, constitutionally made.
Militia. () It is presumable the framers of the constitution contemplated a full exercise of all the powers of organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia; nevertheless, if congress had declined to exercise them, it was competent to the state governments respectively to do it. But congress has executed these powers as fully as was thought right, and covered the whole ground of their legislation by different laws, notwithstanding important provisions may have been omitted, or those enacted might be beneficially altered or enlarged.
Militia. () After this, the states cannot enact or enforce laws on the same subject. For although their laws may not be directly repugnant to those of congress, yet congress, having exercised their will upon the subject, the states cannot legislate upon it. If the law of the latter be the same, it is inoperative: if they differ, they must, in the nature of things, oppose each other, so far as they differ.
Militia. () Thus if an act of congress imposes a fine, and a state law fine and imprisonment for the same offence, though the latter is not repugnant, inasmuch as it agrees with the act of the congress, so far as the latter goes, and add another punishment, yet the wills of the two legislating powers in relation to the subject are different, and cannot subsist harmoniously together.
Militia. () The same legislating power may impose cumulative punishments; but not different legislating powers.
Militia. () Therefore, where the state governments have, by the constitution, a concurrent power with the national government, the former cannot legislate on any subject on which congress has acted, although the two laws are not in terms contradictory and repugnant to each other.
Militia. () Where congress prescribed the punishment to be inflicted on a militia man, detached and called forth, but refusing to march, and also provided that courts martial for the trial of such delinquent's, to be composed of militia officers only, should be held and conducted in the manner pointed out by the rules and articles of war, and a state had passed a law enacting the penalties on such delinquents which the act of congress prescribed, and directing lists of the delinquents to be furnished to the comptroller of the United States and marshal, that further proceeding might take place according to the act of congress, and providing for their trial by state courts martial, such state courts martial have jurisdiction. Congress might have vested exclusive jurisdiction in courts martial to be held according to their laws, but not having done so expressly, their jurisdiction is not exclusive.
Militia. () Although congress have exercised the whole power of calling out the militia, yet they are not national militia, till employed in actual service; and they are not employed in actual service, till they arrive at the place of rendezvous. 5 Wheat. 1; Vide 1 Kent's Com. 262; 3 Story, Const. Sec. 1194 to 1210.
Militia. () The acts of the national legislature which regulate the militia are the following, namely: Act of May 8, 1792, 1 Story, L. U. S. 252; Act of February 28, 1795, 1 Story, L. U. S. 390; Act of March 2, 1803, 2 Story, L. U. S. 888; Act of April 10, 1806, Story, L. U. S. 1005; Act of April 20, 1816, 3 Story, L. U. S. 1573; Act of May 12, 1820, 3 Story, L. U. S. 1786 Act of March 2, 1821, 3 Story; L. U. S. 1811.
Militiamen (n. pl. ) of Militiaman.
Militiaman (n.) One who belongs to the militia.
Militiate (v. i.) To carry on, or prepare for, war.
Milk (n.) (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. "White as morne milk." -- Chaucer.
Milk (n.) (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
Milk (n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
Milk (n.) (Zool.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.
Condensed milk. See under Condense, v. t.
Milk crust (Med.), Vesicular eczema occurring on the face and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema.
Milk fever. (a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first lactation. It is usually transitory.
Milk fever. (b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after calving.
Milk glass, Glass having a milky appearance.
Milk knot (Med.), A hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands.
Milk leg (Med.), A swollen condition of the leg, usually in puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue.
Milk meats, Food made from milk, as butter and cheese. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2.
Milk molar (Anat.), One of the deciduous molar teeth which are shed and replaced by the premolars.
Milk of lime (Chem.), A watery emulsion of calcium hydrate, produced by macerating quicklime in water.
Milk parsley (Bot.), An umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum palustre) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice.
Milk pea (Bot.), A genus ({Galactia"> Milk pea (Bot.), a genus ({Galactia) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants.
Milk sickness (Med.), See milk sickness in the vocabulary.
Milk snake (Zool.), A harmless American snake ({Ophibolus triangulus, or Ophibolus eximius). It is variously marked with white, gray, and red. Called also milk adder, chicken snake, house snake, etc.
Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See Lactose, and Sugar of milk (below).
Milk thistle (Bot.), An esculent European thistle ({Silybum marianum), having the veins of its leaves of a milky whiteness.
Milk thrush. (Med.) See Thrush.
Milk tooth (Anat.), One of the temporary first set of teeth in young mammals; in man there are twenty.
Milk tree (Bot.), A tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow tree of South America ({Brosimum Galactodendron), and the Euphorbia balsamifera of the Canaries, the milk of both of which is wholesome food.
Milk vessel (Bot.), A special cell in the inner bark of a plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is contained. See Latex.
Rock milk. See Agaric mineral, under Agaric.
Sugar of milk. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an article of diet. See Lactose.
Milked (imp. & p. p.) of Milk.
Milking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Milk.
Milk (v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. "Milking the kine." -- Gay.
I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me. -- Shak.
Milk (v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
Milk (v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. --Tyndale.
They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. -- London Spectator.
To milk the street, To squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant]
To milk a telegram, To use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]
Milk (v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.
Milk (v. i.) (Elec.) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; -- said of a storage battery.
Milk (n.) A white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings.
Milk (n.) Produced by mammary glands of female mammals for feeding their young.
Milk (n.) A river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River [syn: Milk, Milk River].
Milk (n.) Any of several nutritive milklike liquids.
Milk (v.) Take milk from female mammals; "Cows need to be milked every morning".
Milk (v.) Exploit as much as possible; "I am milking this for all it's worth".
Milk (v.) Add milk to; "milk the tea".
Milken (a.) Consisting of milk.
Milker (n.) One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
Milker (n.) A cow or other animal that gives milk.
Milkful (a.) Full of milk; abounding with food.
Milkily (adv.) In a milky manner.
Milkiness (n.) State or quality of being milky.
Milk-livered (a.) White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
Milkmaid (n.) A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
Milkmen (n. pl. ) of Milkman.
Milkman (n.) A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.
Milksop (n.) A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.
Milk vetch () A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.
Milkweed (n.) Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.
Milkwort (n.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
Milky (a.) Consisting of, or containing, milk.
Milky (a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice."
Milky (a.) Yielding milk.
Milky (a.) Mild; tame; spiritless.
Mill (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
Mill (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
Mill (n.) 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.
Mill (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
Mill (n.) 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.
Mill (n.) 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.
Mill (n.) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
Mill (n.) (Mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
Mill (n.) (Mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
Mill (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
Mill (n.) A pugilistic encounter. [Cant] -- R. D. Blackmore.
Mill (n.) Short for Treadmill.
Mill (n.) The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
Mill (n.) A building or complex of buildings containing a mill[1] or other machinery to grind grains into flour.
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.
Milled (imp. & p. p.) of Mill.
Milling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mill.
Mill (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
Mill (v. t.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
Mill (v. t.) 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.
Mill (v. t.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
Mill (v. t.) To beat with the fists. [Cant] -- Thackeray.
Mill (v. t.) To roll into bars, as steel.
To mill chocolate, To make it frothy, as by churning.
Mill (v. i.) (Zool.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
Mill (v. i.) (Zool.) To undergo hulling, as maize.
Mill (v. i.) (Zool.) To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; -- usually used with around.
The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius. -- Kipling.
Mill (v. i.) To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.
Mill (v. i.) To take part in a mill; to box. [Cant]
Mill (n.) A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory].
Mill (n.) Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) [syn: Mill, James Mill].
Mill (n.) English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873) [syn: Mill, John Mill, John Stuart Mill].
Mill (n.) Machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing [syn: mill, grinder, milling machinery].
Mill (n.) The act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation].
Mill (v.) Move about in a confused manner [syn: mill, mill about, mill around].
Mill (v.) Grind with a mill; "mill grain".
Mill (v.) Produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin".
Mill (v.) Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine.
Millboard (n.) A kind of stout pasteboard.
Mill-cake (n.) The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.
Milldam (n.) A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.
Milled (a.) Having been subjected to some process of milling.
Millefiore glass () Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.
Millenarian (a.) Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
Millenarian (n.) One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
Millenarianism (n.) Alt. of Millenarism.
Millenarism (n.) The doctrine of Millenarians.
Millenary (a.) Consisting of a thousand; millennial.
Millenary (n.) The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian. "During that millenary". -- Hare.
Millenary (a.) Of or relating to the doctrine of the millennium.
Millenary (a.) Relating to or consisting of 1000.
Millenary (n.) The 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) [syn: millennium, millenary].
Millenary (n.) A span of 1000 years [syn: millennium, millenary]
Millenary (n.) A sum or aggregate of one thousand (especially one thousand years).
Millennial (a.) Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
Millennial (a.) Relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years [syn: millennial, millennian].
Millennialist (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.
Millennianism (n.) Alt. of Millenniarism.
Millenniarism (n.) Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium [2] ; millenarianism.
Millennist (n.) One who believes in the millennium [2]. [Obs.] -- Johnson.
Millennium (n.) (pl. millennia) 千年期；千禧年；千年至福；黃金時代 A period of one thousand years.
Millennium (n.) 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.
Millennium (n.) Hence: A long period of happiness, righteousness, and prosperity, usually considered as being in the indefinite future.
Millennium (n.) 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.
Note: 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.
Millennium (n.) A span of 1000 years [syn: {millennium}, {millenary}].
Millennium (n.) (New Testament) In Revelations it is foretold that those faithful to Jesus will reign with Jesus over the earth for a thousand years; the meaning of these words have been much debated; some denominations (e.g. Jehovah's Witnesses) expect it to be a thousand years of justice and peace and happiness
Millennium (n.) The 1000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) [syn: {millennium}, {millenary}].
Millennium (n.) A thousand years; the name given to the era mentioned in Rev. 20:1-7. Some maintain that Christ will personally appear on earth for the purpose of establishing his kingdom at the beginning of this millennium. Those holding this view are usually called "millenarians." On the other hand, it is maintained, more in accordance with the teaching of Scripture, we think, that Christ's second advent will not be premillennial, and that the right conception of the prospects and destiny of his kingdom is that which is taught, e.g., in the parables of the leaven and the mustard-seed. The triumph of the gospel, it is held, must be looked for by the wider and more efficient operation of the very forces that are now at work in extending the gospel; and that Christ will only come again at the close of this dispensation to judge the world at the "last day." The millennium will thus precede his coming.
Millennium (n.) The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.
Milleped (n.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.
Millepora (n.) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.
Millepore (n.) 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.
Milleporite (n.) A fossil millepore.
Miller (n.) One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
Miller (n.) A milling machine.
Miller (n.) 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.
Miller (n.) The eagle ray.
Miller (n.) The hen harrier.
Millerite (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.
Millerite (n.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.
Millesimal (a.) Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.