For the play, I remember, pleased not the million.
Shak.
Mil`lion*aire" (?; 277), 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.]
Mil`lion*air"ess, n. A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a
millionaire. [Humorous] Holmes.
Mil"lion*a*ry (?), a. Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of
millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits. Pinkerton.
Mil"lioned (?), a. Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.] Shak.
||Mil`lion`naire" (?), n. [F.] Millionaire.
Mil"lionth (?), 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.
Mil"lionth, n. The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a
million equal parts.
Mil"li*ped (?), n. (Zoöl.) The same Milleped.
Mil"li*stere (?), n. [F. millistère, from milli- milli- + stère.] A
liter, or cubic decimeter.
Mil`li*we"ber (?), n. [Milli- + weber.] (Physics) The thousandth part
of one weber.
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{ Mill"rea` (ml"r`), Mill"ree`, Mill"reis` (-rs`) }, n. See Milreis.
{ Mill"rind` (-rnd`), Mill"rynd` (- rnd`) }, n. [Mill + rynd.] (Her.) A
figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being
set into its center.
Mill"-sixpence (?), n. A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of
the first English coins milled (1561).
Mill"stone` (?), n. One of two circular stones used for grinding grain
or other substance.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge.
Deut. xxiv. 6.
The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for
millstones; also, some kinds of lava, as that Niedermendig, or other
firm rock with rough texture. The surface of a millstone has usually a
series of radial grooves in which the powdered material collects.
Millstone girt (Geol.), a hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing
the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See Farewell rock,
under Farewell, a., and Chart of Geology. -- To see into, or through, a
millstone, to see into or through a difficult matter. (Colloq.)
Mill"work` (?), n. 1. The shafting, gearing, and other driving
machinery of mills.