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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
miller
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Edmund Lane, a corn miller of Steam Mills at Cinderford, now appeared as an undertenant.
▪ In 1806 Thurlstone also had 17 labourers, 3 millers, a millwright, 4 paper makers and an oil-presser.
▪ Most prominent amongst these are terms that mock the miller as an impotent and inadequate cuckold.
▪ The miller agreed to let the boy go, and the boy set out.
▪ The miller down the ages has made his own peculiar contribution to the low esteem in which he was held.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
miller

Ray \Ray\, n. [F. raie, L. raia. Cf. Roach.] (Zo["o]l.)

  1. Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Rai[ae], including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

  2. In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

    Bishop ray, a yellow-spotted, long-tailed eagle ray ( Stoasodon n[`a]rinari) of the Southern United States and the West Indies.

    Butterfly ray, a short-tailed American sting ray ( Pteroplatea Maclura), having very broad pectoral fins.

    Devil ray. See Sea Devil.

    Eagle ray, any large ray of the family Myliobatid[ae], or [AE]tobatid[ae]. The common European species ( Myliobatis aquila) is called also whip ray, and miller.

    Electric ray, or Cramp ray, a torpedo.

    Starry ray, a common European skate ( Raia radiata).

    Sting ray, any one of numerous species of rays of the family Trygonid[ae] having one or more large, sharp, barbed dorsal spines on the whiplike tail. Called also stingaree.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
miller

mid-14c. (attested as a surname by early 14c.), agent noun from mill (v.1). The Old English word was mylnweard, literally "mill-keeper" (preserved in surname Millward, attested from late 13c.).

Wiktionary
miller

n. 1 A person who owns or operates a mill, especially a flour mill. 2 A milling machine. 3 Any of several moths that have powdery wings. 4 The common name of a flour-smelling mushroom, ''Clitopilus prunulus''.

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Gazetteer
Miller, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 754
Housing Units (2000): 378
Land area (2000): 0.757193 sq. miles (1.961122 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.757193 sq. miles (1.961122 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48242
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.215885 N, 93.841499 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 65707
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Miller, MO
Miller
Miller, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 156
Housing Units (2000): 72
Land area (2000): 0.368453 sq. miles (0.954289 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.368453 sq. miles (0.954289 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32130
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.928001 N, 99.392353 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68858
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Miller, NE
Miller
Miller, SD -- U.S. city in South Dakota
Population (2000): 1530
Housing Units (2000): 845
Land area (2000): 0.947896 sq. miles (2.455039 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.947896 sq. miles (2.455039 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42460
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 44.519932 N, 98.986386 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57362
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Miller, SD
Miller
Miller -- U.S. County in Georgia
Population (2000): 6383
Housing Units (2000): 2770
Land area (2000): 283.046400 sq. miles (733.086780 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.675068 sq. miles (1.748419 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 283.721468 sq. miles (734.835199 sq. km)
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 31.166180 N, 84.733801 W
Headwords:
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Miller, GA
Miller County
Miller County, GA
Miller -- U.S. County in Missouri
Population (2000): 23564
Housing Units (2000): 11263
Land area (2000): 592.255223 sq. miles (1533.933921 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.685331 sq. miles (19.904916 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 599.940554 sq. miles (1553.838837 sq. km)
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.238974 N, 92.481091 W
Headwords:
Miller
Miller, MO
Miller County
Miller County, MO
Miller -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 40443
Housing Units (2000): 17727
Land area (2000): 623.978794 sq. miles (1616.097588 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 13.500960 sq. miles (34.967325 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 637.479754 sq. miles (1651.064913 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 33.384684 N, 93.968079 W
Headwords:
Miller
Miller, AR
Miller County
Miller County, AR
Wikipedia
Miller (disambiguation)

A miller is a person who owns or operates a mill which turns grain into flour.

Miller may also refer to:

Miller

A miller usually refers to a person who operates a mill, a machine to grind a cereal crop to make flour.

Miller (automobile)

The Miller was an automobile built in Detroit, Michigan by the Miller Car Company from 1912-13. The Miller was built as roadsters and five-seater tourers that were powered by 30 hp and 40 ho four-cylinder engines. These vehicles were priced from $1,250 to $1,450.

Miller (Cambridgeshire cricketer)

Miller (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer who was associated with Cambridge Town Club and made his first-class debut in 1828.

Miller (crater)

Miller is a lunar impact crater that lies amidst the rugged terrain in the southern part of the Moon. It is attached to the northern rim of the smaller crater Nasireddin, and the outer rampart of the latter reaches almost to the central peak formation at the midpoint of Miller's interior floor. Together with Huggins to the southwest and Orontius to the south-southwest, this foursome forms a chain of craters forming an arc that curves towards the north. The northwest rim of Miller in turn is attached to the satellite crater Miller C, forming the end of the arc. To the southeast lies Stöfler. The crater is named after British scientist William Allen Miller.

The rim of Miller is nearly circular with a system of terraces along the inner wall. The interior floor is nearly level with the aforementioned central peak formation located at the midpoint. The crater Stöfler H is attached to the exterior southeast rim and intrudes slightly into the interior. There are a few tiny craterlets lying within the crater, including one along the rampart of Nasiredden.

Miller (moth)
''This article is about the miller moth of Europe. The name "miller" is also used for similar moths elsewhere, such as the genus Agrotis (e.g. Agrotis laysanensis). See Army cutworm for information on the miller moth found in the western United States.

The miller (Acronicta leporina) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout Europe apart from the far south-east.The range extends from the South of Spain, Central Italy and Bulgaria to Scotland and Central Scandinavia, crossing the Arctic circle in Finland and Norway. Outside Europe it is only known in North Africa. In the Eastern Palearctic and the Nearctic ecozone it is replaced by Acronicta vulpina, (Grote, 1883) formerly known as Acronicta leporina subspecies vulpina

Miller (name)

Miller,Milleiir''', and Millar are surnames of English language, Old English or Scottish origin. There are two homonymous forms of Miller, one that began as an occupational surname for a miller and another that began as a toponymic surname for people from a locale in Glasgow. Miller of the occupational origin may also be translated from many cognate surnames from other European languages, such as Mueller, Müller, Mühler, Moller, Möller, Møller, and others. There is also a form in the early English lingusitics as Milleiir.

The standard modern word represents the northern Middle English term, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner). In southern, western, and central England, Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term.

The origin of the Scottish surname is from a burn (rivulet) in Glasgow, namely the molindinar (Mo-lynn-dine-are), and the name has evolved over the years to molindar Mo-lynn-dar and to molinar mo-lynn-ar and to Millar and finally to Miller. The first record of the name was in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. If the surname has Highland Scottish origins, the bearers are associated with Clan MacFarlane. In 1995, Miller was the 22nd most common surname on the birth, death and marriage registers in Scotland; Millar was 77th.

The name Miller also has a long history in Northern Ireland, notably County Antrim where many migrants from Northern England and Scotland settled in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Amongst the earliest recordings of the surname is Reginald Miller in the Subsidy Tax Rolls of Sussex, South East England in 1327.

Miller (typeface)

Miller is a transitional serif typeface released in 1997 by the Font Bureau, a U.S.-based digital type foundry. It was designed by Matthew Carter, based on the "Scotch Roman" style which originates from types cut by Richard Austin in Scottish type foundries in the early 19th century.

The general purpose versions of Miller are Miller Text and Miller Display, though since their release they have given rise to a number of variants, including Miller Daily, Miller Headline and Miller Banner, as well as some variants commissioned for use in specific publications. The Miller family is widely used, mostly in newspapers and magazines.

Usage examples of "miller".

Unless, Miller had said, you used it as a fuse, a primer, stuck to the tons of Amatol or Torpex or whatever they used.

On opening it, another paper fell out of it, which on examination proved to be an assignment of a judgment in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County from Joseph Anderson, the late husband of the widow above named, to James Adams, the judgment being in favor of said Anderson against one Joseph Miller.

He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it.

Adam Holzman on synthesizer and the bassist Marcus Miller were members of the band.

Miller found himself unable to complete the book after decades of work, and agreed, before his death, to have Bisson complete it.

Beyond Thorn the door was open to the small room with the cot, and Brandreth could see that Robinson Miller was lying in there.

The drunken miller, who had been good for absolutely nothing at all, she managed, through her own manly pulling of his topknot every day, without any extraneous remedies, to turn not into a man but into pure gold.

There are some malarious spots on the edge of Lake Champlain, arid there have been some temporary centres of malaria, within the memory of man, on one or more of our Massachusetts rivers, but these are harmless enough, for the most part, unless the millers dam them, when they are apt to retaliate with a whiff from their meadows, that sets the whole neighborhood shaking with fever and ague.

IV Then messengers sped to the maltster, the auctioneer, miller, and all The seven sons of the farmer who housed in the range of his call.

His father was a miller or maltster, and there is a theory that Rembrandt acquired some of his effects of light and shade from the impressions made upon him during his life in the mill.

Miller having expressed great desire and curiosity to hear, he began and related to her his whole history, without once mentioning the name of Sophia.

They have ahead of them a long winter of motoring about the country in all sorts of weather, wrangling with millers and stevedores, checking cargoes and costs, keeping the peace between the Belgians and the German authorities, observing the rules of the game toward everybody concerned, and above all, keeping neutral.

Friends with Henry Miller, Robinson Jeffers, the musician Harry Partch, de Angulo was perhaps the most hermetic and provocative of the pre-Beat individualist literary figures, and his work continues to resonate at the end of our century.

Miller now felt, bereft her of the power of speech, and might perhaps have deprived her of her senses, if not of life, had not a friendly shower of tears come seasonably to her relief.

Bruce Cook, Corky and Stephen Pollan, Lori Pollan and Allan Bahn, Dana Pollan and Mitchell Stern, Danelle Black, Joan Samuelson, Debi Brooks, Michael Claeys, Mindy Miller, Greg Mann, the staff of The Michael J.