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noun
mil  n.  
1.
An obsolete monetary unit of Cyprus equal in value to 1/1000 of a pound.
2.
A unit of length equal to 1/1000 inch, used especially in measuring the thickness of sheets of materials.
3.
One milliliter; used mostly in informal speech. (laboratory slang)
Synonyms: milliliter, millilitre, ml, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc.
4.
A unit of angular size equal to 1/6400 of 360 degrees; it is used especially in artillery ranging.
Synonyms: mil.






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"Mil" Quotes from Famous Books



... lond Warigeath, wulf-hleothu, windige naessas, Frecne fen-gelad, thaer fyrgen-stream Under naessa genipu nither gewiteth, Flod under foldan. Nis thaet feor heonon, Mil-gemearces, thaet se mere standeth, Ofer thaem hongiath hrinde bearwas ... They (a) darksome land Ward (inhabit), wolf cliffs, windy nesses, Frightful fen paths where mountain stream Under nesses' mists nether (downward) wanders, A flood under earth. It is not far ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long

... "Contact comes from consciousness: sensation from contact: craving from sensation: the sankharas from craving: consciousness from the sankharas: contact from consciousness" and so on ad infinitum. See Mil. Pan. 51.] ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

... said David. "Yes, wa'al, when I went home that night I stopped into a mil'nery store, an' after I'd stood 'round a minute, a girl come up an' ast me if ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott

... Aunt Sharley again! Honestly, Mil, she was absolutely unbearable this evening. It was bad enough to have her go stalking across the lawn with that old snuff stick of hers stuck in the corner of her mouth, and singing that terrible song of hers at the very top of her lungs and wearing ...
— From Place to Place • Irvin S. Cobb

... much mutilated the text of the journal that occasionally the sense is left obscure. *3* 'Hoc itaque nuncio laeti altero ac incensi . . . Sacramento expiationis et pane fortim roborati' (Ennis, 'Efemerides'). *4* Cardiel, in his 'Declaracion de la Verdad', p. 426, says: 'Lo mismo es 28,000 mil Indios que igual numero de ...
— A Vanished Arcadia, • R. B. Cunninghame Graham

... liberties of "America on the justest and firmest basis that was "ever yet recorded in the annuals of history, you "now enjoy the supremest of all earthly happiness "that of diffusing peace, liberty, and safety to mil- "lions of your fellow-citizens. ...
— Washington's Masonic Correspondence - As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress • Julius F. Sachse

... thought that would secure your consent. Well, mil mil gracias! But what a game of cross-purposes we'll be playing; I for you, and you for me, and neither for ourselves! Let us hope we ...
— The Free Lances - A Romance of the Mexican Valley • Mayne Reid

... "Mil gracias y buenas noches, Senor," exclaimed Panza as he strode toward the door. "One word before I go, caballeros; beware of Senor Alvaros, for he bears no love for ...
— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood

... (madei'ra), Magellan, Magellan, Strait of, Magna Charta, Marathon, Marco Polo, Marseilles (mar-salz), Mary, Queen of England, Menendez, Pedro (ma-nen'dath) Mexico, conquest of, Michel Angelo (mi'kel-an'je-lo), Middle Ages, defined, close, Miltiades (mil-ti'a-dez) Missionaries, Missions, Spanish, Mississippi River, discovery of, Modern Times, defined, Mohammedans, Moluccas, Monasteries, Mongol Tartars, Montezuma, King of Aztecs, ...
— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton

... really care about," cried Tims. "You've been a pig to her, Mil. She says you're a devil, and if I weren't a scientific woman I swear I should begin to believe there was something ...
— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods

... also been in Europe, and in Africa, and in the islands of Corsica, and in Caer Brythwch, and Brythach, and Verthach; and I was present when formerly thou didst slay the family of Clis the son of Merin, and when thou didst slay Mil Du the son of Ducum, and when thou didst conquer Greece in the East. And I have been in Caer Oeth and Annoeth, and in Caer Nevenhyr; nine supreme sovereigns, handsome men, saw we there, but never did I behold a man of equal dignity with him who is now at the door of the portal." ...
— The Mabinogion • Lady Charlotte Guest

... fill up regiments in the field; commands Department of the Tennessee; hastens to Chattanooga; marches to relief of Burnside; horror of E. Tennessee; dissatisfied with Granger; good dinner at Burnside's headquarters, explanation of; Meridian expedition; promoted to command Mil. Division of the Mississippi; visits Schofield at Knoxville; urges confirmation of his appointment as major general; correspondence with Halleck; modest estimate of his own powers; studies problem of supplying his army in ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox

... Gonzalo.—Nun, volonte, mi sxangxus mil mejlojn da marakvo nur por seka terpeco, longa erikejo,[8] brunigxinta dornstipejo,[9] io ajn! Estu do la superega Volo! Sed mi preferus ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 2 • Various

... to the Creek nation, he fell in with Leclerc Mil-fort, an adventurous Frenchman, who afterwards wrote a book of travels, and was made a general of brigade by Napoleon. Milfort married one of McGillivray's sisters, was made Tustenug-gee (or grand war chief), ...
— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris

... is," interposed the New Yorker. "Have you been up Fifth Avenue to see the magnificent residences of our mil—" ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry

... tal, con gracia tanta, A quel ruysenor llora, que sospecho Que tiene otros cien mil dentro del pecho, Que alterno su dolor por ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... "/Si, si—mil gracias, senor/." Ylario tried to kneel upon the floor in his gratitude, but the cattleman kicked at him benevolently, growling, "None of ...
— Heart of the West • O. Henry

... buen espacio de tarde hasta que por ultimo, en el fondo de una cortadura tropece con un pastor, el cual abrevaba su ganado en el riachuelo que, despues de deslizarse sobre un cauce de piedras de mil colores, salta y se retuerce alli con un ruido particular que se oye a gran distancia, en medio del profundo silencio de la naturaleza que en aquel punto y a aquella ...
— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

... adv eve per sta app fin ple sir bal gin pre sur bil hee pro tem bre imp que tos cap int rec tur chi k reg umb col lan ria une com mac sab ven cra mil sca wea dec nap sha wor dis off ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton

... menos,(a little more or less) as the Spaniards say when they are complimented with Viva V. S. mil anos (may ...
— A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 • Richard Twiss

... Comment Orleans eult delivrance.... L'an mil iiijc xxix; Faites en memoire tous dis; Des jours de may ce ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France

... also been in Europe, and in Africa, and in the Islands of Corsica, and in Caer Brythwch, and Brythach, and Verthach; and I was present when formerly thou didst slay the family of Clis the son of Merin, and when thou didst slay Mil Du, the son of Ducum, and when thou didst conquer Greece in the East. And I have been in Caer Oeth and Annoeth, and in Caer Nevenhyr; nine supreme sovereigns, handsome men, saw we there, but never did I behold a man of ...
— The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3) • Owen M. Edwards

... L'an Mil huit cent un, le vingt-deuxieme jour d'Aout, les Etats, a leur premiere tenue depuis la nouvelle de la victoire qu'a remportee l'Amiral Sir James Saumarez sur la flotte combinee de la France et de l'Espagne, dans les Passages de Gibraltar, ont un devoir de ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II • Sir John Ross

... soyez agez De trois mil ans, vous ne changez Jamais ny d'estat ny de forme : Mais toujours ma jeunesse fuit, Et la vieillesse qui me suit De jeune en ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield

... years previously, had cultivated the crown lands, on condition of their paying five per cent. of the value of the land against the issue of their title-deeds. Under the Tapoo system the crown lands become subject to two fixed taxes—the Verghoo, about four per mil. on the estimated value of the land; and the Ushr or tithe, which should be a tenth part of ...
— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various

... years of Lonnie's success was the abiding crux of Jason's disgust. And this, in spite of the more and more men Jason came to control and the fitful stream of new techniques and equipment Gov-Pol and Gov-Mil Labs put ...
— Zero Data • Charles Saphro

... Units of area, usually applied to cross sectional area of conductors, by whose use area is expressed in terms of circle of unit diameter, usually a circular mil, which is the area of a circle of one-thousandth of an inch diameter, or a circular millimeter, which is the area of a circle of one millimeter diameter. Thus a wire one-quarter of an inch in diameter has an area of 250 circular mils; ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone

... chicken's lucky does he git by widout gittin' his health an' stren'th mussed up befo' dis trip ends. At res', Lily, till I brings you some nutriment. Doggone ol' bird must have near wore you out. 'At's de way wid dem mil'tary commands. Res' yo'se'f, Lily, till Ah ...
— Lady Luck • Hugh Wiley

... quit me feront Les cheitives qui a toi sont Qui s'ocistrent par druerie D'amor; mout voil lor compainie: D'amor me recomfortera La lasse Deanira, Qui s'encroast, et Canac, Eco, Scilla, Fillis, Pronn, Ero, Biblis, Dido, Mirra, Tisb, la bele Hypermnestra, Et des autres mil et cinc cenz. Amor! por quoi ne te repenz De ces simples lasses destruire? Trop cruelment te voi deduire: Pechi feiz que n'en as piti; Nuls deus fors toi ne fait pechi! De o est Tisb al dessus, Que por li s'ocist Piramus; Amors, de o te puet ...
— Epic and Romance - Essays on Medieval Literature • W. P. Ker



Words linked to "Mil" :   cubic centimeter, linear unit, in, cl, cubic centimetre, ml, linear measure, Cypriot pound, millilitre, cc, cubic millimeter, angular unit, Cypriot monetary unit, centiliter



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