millipede

(MILLEPED.] *mil-lo-crăt, s . [From mill , on analogy of aris tocrat , .] A wealthy mill-owner. "The true blood-suckers, the venomous millocrats ."_ Lytton : Caxtons , bk. ii., ch. iv. *mill-o-crăt-ism, s. [English millocrat; -ism.] Government by millocrats. "The misery which accompanies the reign of millocrat A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj .: (See the ism."-Lytton : Caxtons , bk. xiii., ch. iv. verb.) IMG:content-1217.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Coining : The term is applied: (1) To an action such as that which upsets the edge of a coin, making the raised flanges which protect the ornaments in relief on the obverse and reverse sides of the coin. Milling in this sense is performed upon an object in a lathe by the pre ure of a burnisher or wheel, which turns over or upsets an edge, as in the case of the feather-edge on a tube or bezel which holds a lens or a jewel in its seat or setting. (2) To an action such as that which gives a fluting or crenation to the edge of the coin. (3) The indented or milled edge on coins. 2. Cloth : A fulling proce which condenses and thickens cloth. 3. Porcelain : The mastication and grinding of slip for porcelain, giving it the final working to develop plasticity. IMG:content-1218.png:[blocks in formation] Millon (as Mi-yon), s . [From Millon, a French man, its discoverer.) (See the compound.) Millon's-test, Millon's test-liquid, s. Chem.: A nitric and nitrous solution of pro to nitrate and per nitrate of mercury. It detects the presence of proteine or its allied compounds by the production of a more or le deep rose color. The test liquid is made by di olving metallic mercury in an equal weight of strong nitric acid. The substance to be tested is plunged in the liquid and heat applied. mill-pond, s. [Eng. mill, and pond.] A pond or reservoir of water employed to drive a mill. mill-rāçe, s . [Eng. mill , and race.] The canal or leat by which water is conveyed to a mill-wheel. Below the wheel the water is conducted away by the mill-tail or tail-race.