To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.
Mill, v. i. (Zoöl.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing
creatures.
Mill"board` (?), 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.
Mill"dam` (?), 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.
Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Milled
lead, lead rolled into sheets.
Mil`le*fi*o"re glass` (?). [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.
Mil`le*na"ri*an (?), a. [See Millenary.] Consisting of a thousand
years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
Mil`le*na"ri*an, n. One who believes that Christ will personally reign
on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast.
{ Mil`le*na"ri*an*ism (?), Mil"le*na*rism (?), } n. The doctrine of
Millenarians.
Mil"le*na*ry (?), a. [L. millenarius, fr. milleni a thousand each, fr.
mille a thousand: cf. F. millénaire. See Mile.] Consisting of a
thousand; millennial.
Mil"le*na*ry, n. The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a
Millenarian."During that millenary." Hare.
Mil*len"ni*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a
thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
Mil*len"ni*al*ist, 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.
{ Mil*len"ni*an*ism (?), Mil*len"ni*a*rism (?), } n. Belief in, or
expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.
Mil"len*nist (ml"ln*nst), n. One who believes in the millennium. [Obs.]
Johnson.
Mil*len"ni*um (ml*ln"n*m), n. [LL., fr. L. mille a thousand + annus a
year. See Mile, and Annual.] A thousand years; especially, the 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.
Mil"le*ped (ml"l*pd), n. [L. millepeda; mille a thousand + pes, pedis,
foot: cf. F. mille-pieds.] (Zoöl.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a
chilognath, as the galleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped.]
||Mil*le*po"ra (ml*l*p"r), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Hydrocorallia,
||which includes the millipores.
Mil"le*pore (ml"l*pr), n. [L. mille thousand + porus pore: cf. F.
millépore.] (Zoöl.) 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.
Mil"le*po*rite (?), n. (Paleon.) A fossil millepore.
Mill"er (ml"r), n. 1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or
gristmill.