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Tunny :: Tunny (n.) Any one of several species of large oceanic fishes belonging to the Mackerel family, especially the common or great tunny (Orcynus / Albacora thynnus) native of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It sometimes weighs a thousand pounds or more, and is extensively caught in the Mediterranean. On the American coast it is called horse mackerel. See Illust. of Horse mackerel, under Horse..

Millenary :: Millenary (n.) The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian..

Lakh :: Lakh (n.) One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees..

Thousandth :: Thousandth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.

Milliweber :: Milliweber (n.) The thousandth part of one weber.

Piperaceous :: Piperaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to the order of plants (Piperaceae) of which the pepper (Piper nigrum) is the type. There are about a dozen genera and a thousand species, mostly tropical plants with pungent and aromatic qualities..

Myria- :: Myria- () A prefix, esp. in the metric system, indicating ten thousand, ten thousand times; as, myriameter..

Thousandth :: Thousandth (a.) Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time..

Million :: Million (n.) The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred..

Thousand Legs :: Thousand legs () A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm..

Palladium :: Palladium (n.) A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so na

Exclusive :: Exclusive (a.) Not taking into the account; excluding from consideration; -- opposed to inclusive; as, five thousand troops, exclusive of artillery..

Billion :: Billion (n.) According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration..

Millennialist :: Millennialist (n.) One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period..

Thousand :: Thousand (n.) The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

Coccobacterium :: Coccobacterium (n.) One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism, generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter..

Myriad :: Myriad (n.) The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.

Lakh :: Lakh (n.) Same as Lac, one hundred thousand..

Milligramme :: Milligramme (n.) 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..

Millifold :: Millifold (a.) Thousandfold.

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