The Collaborative International Dictionary
Milligram \Mil"li*gram\, Milligramme \Mil"li*gramme\, n. [F. milligramme; milli- milli- + gramme. See 3d Gram.] A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of milligram English)
Usage examples of "milligramme".
Down in the bird colony the brown and white and pink birds would be stalking in the shallows, or fighting or nesting, while up on the guanera the cormorants would be streaming back from their breakfast to deposit their milligramme of rent to the landlord who would no longer be collecting.
That machine yonder detects the waves from a millionth of a millionth of a milligramme of radium.
She was no less a woman because she weighed perhaps a milligramme instead of one hundred and thirty pounds.
Nurse Callan taken aback in the hallway cannot stay them nor smiling surgeon coming downstairs with news of placentation ended, a full pound if a milligramme.
Well, at the end of ten days you would have taken a centigramme, at the end of twenty days, increasing another milligramme, you would have taken three hundred centigrammes.
The blood test, analysed at speed because of the bang on my head, had revealed a level of two hundred and ninety milligrammes of alcohol per centilitre of blood which, I had been assured, meant that I had drunk the equivalent of more than half a bottle of spirits during the preceding few hours.
I took it pretty calmly, just like I didn't have a couple of milligrammes of flaming phosphorus under the nail and coming through the pain threshold like a rusty scalpel.
In one of her drawers he found the stockpile of his boss's Lotus Balm, strong elixir, containing ginseng and mixed Chinese herbs, plus a nutritionist's text book index of vitamins and minerals referenced in milligrammes instead of page numbers.