Defn: A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.
MILLING
Mill"ing, n.
Defn: 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. 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.
MILLION
Mil"lion, n. Etym: [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
2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number. Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. Locke.
3. The mass of common people; — with the article the. For the play, I remember, pleased not the million. Shak.
MILLIONAIRE
Mil`lion*aire", n. Etym: [F. millionnaire.]
Defn: 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.]
MILLIONAIRESS
Mil`lion*air"ess, n.