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Mil   /mɪl/   Listen
Mil

noun
1.
A Cypriot monetary unit equal to one thousandth of a pound.
2.
A Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km.  Synonyms: mile, Swedish mile.
3.
A unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch; used to specify thickness (e.g., of sheets or wire).
4.
A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.  Synonyms: cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, milliliter, millilitre, ml.
5.
An angular unit used in artillery; equal to 1/6400 of a complete revolution.



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"Mil" Quotes from Famous Books



... is," interposed the New Yorker. "Have you been up Fifth Avenue to see the magnificent residences of our mil—" ...
— Sixes and Sevens • O. Henry
... Heaven has graciously "endowed you with established the 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- ...
— Washington's Masonic Correspondence - As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress • Julius F. Sachse
... at last, conquered by the constancy and perseverance of these repentant Christians, the tormentors afflicted or disquieted them no more, save that often in the night they heard cries so loud that it seemed as if more than five thousand men were assembled together" (plus de cent mil homes ...
— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... 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
... faithfull friends and loyall defenders against all his enemies. (M407) This good Indian assoone ready to doe them pleasure, as they were to demand it, commanded his subiects that they should fill our Pinnesse with mil and beanes. Afterward he caused them to bring him sixe pieces of his Tapistry made like litle couerlets, and gaue them to our men with so liberal a minde, as they easily perceiued the desire which he had to become their friend. In recompence ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt


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