<B>mileage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>miles covered or traveled. <BR> <I>Ex. Our mileage was 350 yesterday. The mileage of this car is 50,000.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>miles traveled per gallon of gasoline. <BR> <I>Ex. Do you get good mileage with your car?</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>length, extent, or distance in miles. The mileage of a railroad is its total number of miles of roadbed. <DD><B> 4. </B>an allowance for traveling expenses at so much a mile. <BR> <I>Ex. Congressmen are given mileage between their homes and Washington, D.C.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a rate charged per mile, as on a toll highway or for a rented car. <DD><B> 6. </B>a mileage ticket or mileage book. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Informal, Figurative.) benefit; use; gain. <BR> <I>Ex. The situation is not without humor but the politicians say there is no mileage in it either way (Birmingham News).</I> <DD> Also, <B>milage.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="mileagebook">
<B>mileage book,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a book of mileage tickets or coupons. </DL>
<A NAME="mileageticket">
<B>mileage ticket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ticket or coupon that entitles the bearer to a certain number of miles of railroad travel. </DL>
<A NAME="milepost">
<B>milepost, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a post set up on a road or railroad to show the distance in miles to a certain place or the distance covered. <BR> <I>Ex. A milepost showed that we were 38 miles from Chicago.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="miler">
<B>miler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or animal, such as a horse, competing in or trained for a mile race. <BR> <I>Ex. The number of sprinters and milers has increased (Observer).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="milesgloriosus">
<B>miles gloriosus, </B>pl. <B>milites gloriosi,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) a vain and boastful soldier (from the title and hero of a comedy by Plautus). </DL>
<A NAME="milesian">
<B>Milesian</B> (1), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> Irish. <BR> <I>Ex. a racy Milesian brogue (Herman Melville).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a native of Ireland. </DL>
<A NAME="milesian">
<B>Milesian</B> (2), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Miletus, an ancient Greek city of Ionia on the western coast of Asia Minor. <BR> <I>Ex. In 499 B.C., the Milesian ruler Aristagoras led the Ionian Greeks in an unsuccessful revolt [against the Persians] (Donald W. Bradeen).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Miletus. </DL>
<A NAME="milestone">
<B>milestone, </B>noun, verb, <B>-stoned,</B> <B>-stoning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a stone set up on a road to show the distance in miles to a certain place. <BR> <I>Ex. The old milestones along the railroad had fallen over.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) an important event. <BR> <I>Ex. The invention of printing was a milestone in human progress.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to mark with milestones. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) The road was milestoned by the parched hides ... of horses, mules, and oxen (J. H. M. Abbott).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="milfoil">
<B>milfoil, </B>noun. =yarrow.</DL>
<A NAME="miliaria">
<B>miliaria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an acute, inflammatory skin disease, located about the sweat glands, characterized by an eruption of spots or blisters resembling millet seeds, accompanied by itching and considerable perspiration, and occurring especially in tropical climates; prickly heat; miliary fever. </DL>
<A NAME="miliary">
<B>miliary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>like a millet seed in size or form. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of a disease) characterized as by eruptions and lesions resembling millet seeds. </DL>
<B>miliary tuberculosis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> tuberculosis characterized by the appearance in various parts of the body of spherical lesions about the size of a millet seed (miliary tubercles), that are caused by tubercle bacilli carried by the bloodstream. </DL>
<A NAME="milibis">
<B>Milibis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) an arsenical powder administered orally in the treatment of intestinal amebiasis. </DL>
<A NAME="milieu">
<B>milieu, </B>noun, pl. <B>milieus,</B> <B>milieux.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> surroundings; environment. <BR> <I>Ex. He [man] takes the milieu in which he finds himself for granted (H. G. Wells).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="miliolite">
<B>miliolite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fossil foraminifer, the minute shells of which, occurring in immense numbers in some strata, are the chief constituent of certain limestones. </DL>
<A NAME="milit">
<B>milit.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> military. </DL>
<A NAME="militancy">
<B>militancy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> warlike behavior or tendency; militant spirit or policy. <BR> <I>Ex. The union is having trouble holding the rising militancy within bounds (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="militant">
<B>militant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>aggressive; fighting; warlike. <BR> <I>Ex. a militant nature. The American Indians became very militant as settlers began to move west.</I> (SYN) combative. <DD><B> 2. </B>engaged in warfare; warring. <DD><B> 3. </B>active in serving a cause or in spreading a belief. <BR> <I>Ex. a militant churchman, a militant pacifist.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a militant person. adv. <B>militantly.</B> noun <B>militantness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="militaria">
<B>militaria, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> a collection of objects having to do with the military, such as firearms, decorations, and uniforms. <BR> <I>Ex. During his last years he spent much of his time in trying to gather together writings, militaria, and other possessions left by the Field-Marshal (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="militarily">
<B>militarily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a military manner. <BR> <I>Ex. This nation will aid these islands militarily if they are threatened (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="militariness">
<B>militariness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state or condition of being military. </DL>
<A NAME="militarism">
<B>militarism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the policy of making military organization and power very strong. <DD><B> b. </B>the political condition in which the military interest is predominant in government or administration. <DD><B> 2. </B>military spirit and ideals. </DL>
<A NAME="militarist">
<B>militarist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who believes in a very powerful military organization or the predominance of military interests. <DD><B> 2. </B>an expert in warfare and military matters. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=militaristic.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="militaristic">
<B>militaristic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with militarists or militarism; characterized by militarism. <BR> <I>Ex. militaristic empires.</I> adv. <B>militaristically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="militarization">
<B>militarization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of militarizing. <BR> <I>Ex. Superior air power is ... a bulwark against the militarization of society (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being militarized. </DL>
<A NAME="militarize">
<B>militarize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-rized,</B> <B>-rizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make the military organization of (a country) very powerful. <DD><B> 2. </B>to fill with military spirit and ideals. </DL>
<A NAME="military">
<B>military, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of soldiers or war. <BR> <I>Ex. military training, military history.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>done by soldiers. <BR> <I>Ex. military maneuvers.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>fit for soldiers. <BR> <I>Ex. military discipline.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>suitable for war; warlike. <BR> <I>Ex. military valor.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>supported by armed force. <BR> <I>Ex. a military government.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>the military,</B> <B>a. </B>the army; soldiers. <BR> <I>Ex. an officer of the military. Haven't you any aquaintances among the military to whom you could show your model [of a cannon]? (William D. Howells).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the armed forces; military establishment of a country or countries. <BR> <I>Ex. Their government is now being run by the military.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="militaryattache">
<B>military attache,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an officer in one of the armed services serving on the staff of an ambassador, minister, or other diplomat, in a foreign country. </DL>
<A NAME="militaryfold">
<B>military fold,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the formal method of folding the United States flag twice lengthwise and then a series of triangular folds. </DL>
<A NAME="militaryindustrialcomplex">
<B>military-industrial complex,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the military branch of a government and all of the businesses supplying its needs. <BR> <I>Ex. We hear many dark mutterings about the vested interest of the military-industrial complex in war ... (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="militarylaw">
<B>military law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a system of rules regulating the government of armed forces and the discipline and control of persons employed in military service. </DL>
<A NAME="militarypolice">
<B>military police,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> soldiers or marines who act as police for the Army or Marine Corps. (Abbr:) M.P., MP (no periods). </DL>
<A NAME="militarypress">
<B>military press,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a weight-lifting exercise in which the bar is lifted from the floor, brought to rest against the chest, and raised above the head at the signal from the referee. </DL>
<A NAME="militaryschool">
<B>military school,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a private school run like a military post. </DL>
<A NAME="militaryscience">
<B>military science,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the study of tactics, strategy, logistics, engineering, and communications, and other aspects of conducting war. </DL>
<A NAME="militate">
<B>militate, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-tated,</B> <B>-tating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to have or exert force; act; work; operate (against or in favor of). <BR> <I>Ex. Bad weather militated against the success of the picnic. Passion, in him, comprehended many of the worst emotions which militate against human happiness (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton).</I> (SYN) contend. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to serve in an army; be a soldier. </DL>
