miller : Idioms & Phrases

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alton glenn miller

  • noun United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
    Miller; Alton Glenn Miller.
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arthur miller

  • noun United States playwright (1915-2005)
    Miller.
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Dusty miller

  • noun shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum
    silver lace; Chrysanthemum ptarmiciflorum; silver-lace; Tanacetum ptarmiciflorum.
  • noun stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves
    Senecio cineraria; Cineraria maritima.
  • noun a plant having leaves and stems covered with down that resembles dust
    Centaurea gymnocarpa; Centaurea cineraria.
  • noun herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant
    old woman; beach wormwood; Artemisia stelleriana.
  • noun an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers
    mullein pink; Lychnis coronaria; rose campion; gardener's delight.
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  • (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.
Webster 1913

glenn miller

  • noun United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
    Miller; Alton Glenn Miller.
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henry miller

  • noun United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)
    Miller; Henry Miller.
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henry valentine miller

  • noun United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)
    Miller; Henry Miller.
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joe miller

Joe" Mil"ler
Etymology
From Joseph Miller, a comic actor, whose name was attached, after his death, to a popular jest book published in 1739.
Definitions
  1. A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke. Colloq.
    It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i. e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none. Pole.
Webster 1913

Miller's thumb

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species (U. gobio), and the American (U. gracilis); called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit . Prov. Eng.
Webster 1913

miller's-thumb

  • noun small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America
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molly miller

  • noun inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic
    Scartella cristata.
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Moth miller

  • noun any of various moths that have powdery wings
    miller.
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  • (Zoöl.), a clothes moth. See Miller, 3, (a).
Webster 1913

White miller

  • . (Zoöl.) (a) The common clothes moth. (b) A common American bombycid moth (Spilosoma Virginica) which is pure white with a few small black spots; called also ermine moth, and virgin moth. See Woolly bear, under Woolly.
Webster 1913