millers coat (mil erzkot)

A coat of fence in use in the sixteenth century, apparently a buff-coat or similar defense of leather. miller's-dog (mil'èrz-dog), n. A kind of shark or dogfish, Galeus can is. miller's-thumb (mil'erz-thum), n. 1. A fish, Cottus gobio, of the family Cottid a. The name is due to the fancied resemblance of the head to the form a IMG:content-0644.png:[graphic] Miller's-thumb ( Cottus gobro ). miller's thumb is popularly supposed to a ume from the frequent sampling of meal with the hand. 2. Any fresh-water sculpin of the genus Ura nide a; one of the little star-gazers, of which there are several species, as U. richardson i. [U. S.] -3. The bib (a fish), Gadus luscus. [Great Britain.]-4. The golden-crested wren, Regulus cristatus; the thumb-bird. [Eng.] 5. The willow-warbler, Phyllos cop us trochilus. millesimal (mi-les'i-mal), a. [= F. millesimo = Sp. milésimo = Pg. It. millesimo, tral Europe. It is an annual, from 2 to 4 feet high, with profuse foliage, the flowers abundant, in open nodding panicles. The grain is one of the best for fowls, and affords a nutritious and palatable table-food. As cultivated in the United States, it is mostly used for fodder, and elsewhere it is le sowed than formerly. 2. One of several other gra es: generally with a prefixed descriptive. See below. - Arabian or evergreen millet, a variety of Indian millet. [Local, U. S.] Cat-tail, East Indian, Egyptian, pearl millet, in the southern United States, a tall gra , Pennisetum spicatum, there cultivated as a forage-plant. In India it serves as a cereal. - German, Hungarian millet. See Italian millet. - Indian millet, African millet, a stout cereal gra commonly known as Sorghum vulgare, but now regarded as part of a multiform species, Andropogon Sorghum, which includes among its varieties the common broom-corn and sorghum. It is extensively cultivated in the Mediterranean region and the Orient, occupying the place of a staple grain. The seed properly treated makes a bread of good quality, and is a good grain for quadrupeds and fowls. The plant serves also for green fodder. This is the durra or doura of Africa and India. It has been introduced to some extent into the United States, where it is sometimes called coffee- or chocolate - corn, because of its attempted use as a substitute for coffee. Also called a grain-mill. IMG:content-0645.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. A milling-machine.-3. A moth whose wings appear as if dusted over with flour or meal, like a miller's clothes; hence, almost any small moth, such as fly about lights at night. Common millers in the United States are Spilosoma virginica, a moth whose larva is one of the woolly-bear caterpillars, and Hyphantria cunea, the web-worm moth. The little yellowish moths of the genera Crambus and Botis are also commonly called millers. See cuts under Crambidæ and Hyphantria. 4. A fish, the eagle-ray, Myliobatis aquila; a mill-skate.-5. The hen-harrier, Circus cyaneus. [Prov. Eng.] -6. A young flycatcher. C. Swain son, Brit. Birds, 1885, p. 49. [Local, Eng.] Cro miller. See cro 1, n.