| dusty miller | (n) shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum, Syn. silver lace, Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum, Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum, silver-lace |
| dusty miller | (n) stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves, Syn. Senecio cineraria, Cineraria maritima |
| dusty miller | (n) a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust, Syn. Centaurea cineraria, Centaurea gymnocarpa |
| dusty miller | (n) herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant, Syn. Artemisia stelleriana, old woman, beach wormwood |
| miller | (n) United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944), Syn. Glenn Miller, Alton Glenn Miller |
| miller | (n) United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980), Syn. Henry Valentine Miller, Henry Miller |
| miller | (n) United States playwright (1915-2005), Syn. Arthur Miller |
| miller | (n) someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill) |
| miller | (n) machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is fed against rotating cutters that shape it, Syn. milling machine |
| millerite | (n) a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel |
| miller's-thumb | (n) small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America |
| molly miller | (n) inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic, Syn. Scartella cristata |
| moth miller | (n) any of various moths that have powdery wings, Syn. miller |
| mullein pink | (n) an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers, Syn. gardener's delight, dusty miller, rose campion, Lychnis coronaria |
| Joe Miller | [ From Joseph Miller, a comic actor, whose name was attached, after his death, to a popular jest book published in 1739. ] A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i. e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none. Pole. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Miller | n. 1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A milling machine. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Zool.) (a) 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. (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Miller's thumb. (Zool.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species (Uranidea gobio), and the American (Uranidea gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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| 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Millerite | n. [ From W. H. Miller, of Cambridge, Eng. ] (Min.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites. [ 1913 Webster ] |
