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Definition of 'Miller's thumb'

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  • Miller \Mill"er\ (m[i^]l"[~e]r), n.
  • 1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A milling machine. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Zool.) (a) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also {moth miller}. (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • Miller's thumb. (Zool.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species (Uranidea gobio), and the American ({Uranidea gracilis}); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'miller's thumb'

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  • Bullhead \Bull"head`\, n.
  • 1. (Zool.) (a) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. Uranidea gobio of Europe, and Uranidea Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb. (b) In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout. (c) A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Zool.) (a) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead. (b) The golden plover. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.] --Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Zool.) A small black water insect. --E. Phillips. [1913 Webster]
  • Bullhead whiting (Zool.), the kingfish of Florida (Menticirrus alburnus). [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'miller's thumb'

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  • Cob \Cob\, n. [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf, kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft, spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. Cop top, Cup, n.]
  • 1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] --W. Gifford. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A leader or chief; a conspicuous person, esp. a rich covetous person. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • All cobbing country chuffs, which make their bellies and their bags their god, are called rich cobs. --Nash. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Zool.) A spider; perhaps from its shape; it being round like a head. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Zool.) A young herring. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Zool.) A fish; -- also called miller's thumb. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Zool.) A sea mew or gull; esp., the black-backed gull (Larus marinus). [Written also cobb.] [1913 Webster]
  • 9. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. A cobnut; as, Kentish cobs. See Cobnut. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • 11. Clay mixed with straw. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
  • The poor cottager contenteth himself with cob for his walls, and thatch for his covering. --R. Carew. [1913 Webster]
  • 12. A punishment consisting of blows inflictod on tho buttocas with a strap or a flat piece of wood. --Wright. [1913 Webster]
  • 13. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d. [Obs.] --Wright. [1913 Webster]
  • Cob coal, coal in rounded lumps from the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles. --Grose.
  • Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. --Wright.
  • Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquot parts. [1913 Webster]

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