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MILLS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855)

Synonyms:

Mills; Robert Mills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (third person singular) of the verb mill

Credits

 Context examples: 

“Mr. Copperfield and Dora,” said Miss Mills, with an almost venerable air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My comfort is, Miss Mills understood me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And Miss Mills smiled thoughtfully, as who should say, “Ye Mayflies, enjoy your brief existence in the bright morning of life!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I wonder I didn't say, “Kill me, if you have a heart, Miss Mills. Let me die here!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I kissed Miss Mills's hand; and we all seemed, to my thinking, to go straight up to the seventh heaven.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was shown into a room upstairs, where Miss Mills and Dora were.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Mills was not at home.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What time Miss Mills sat looking at the moon, murmuring verses—and recalling, I suppose, the ancient days when she and earth had anything in common.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What could I do but invoke a silent blessing on Miss Mills's head, and store Miss Mills's address in the securest corner of my memory!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I speak, said Miss Mills, from experience of the past—the remote, irrevocable past.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)