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Greek
(Μιλτιάδης) Old Greek name derived from the word miltos, MILTIADES means "red earth."
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English
English surname transferred to forename use, form the name of various places, most of which were derived from the Old English word mylentun, MILTON means "mill settlement."
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British, English
Form of Milton; From the Mill Town
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of the numerous and widespread places so called. The majority of these are named with Old English middel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; a smaller group, with examples in Cumbria, Kent, Northamptonshire, Northumbria, Nottinghamshire, and Staffordshire, have as their first element Old English mylen ‘mill’.
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Egyptian
, Merte.
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Swedish
Settlement; Town; Settlement by the Mill; From the Middle Town; Mill Settlement
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : topographic name for someone who lived ‘at the end of the cottages’, from Middle English, Old English ende ‘end’ + cot ‘cottage’. One locality so named is Endicott in Cadbury, Devon; another is now called Youngcott, in Milton Abbot.John Endecott (1588–1665) was a prominent figure in the early history of MA, being one of the founding fathers of Salem, MA, in 1638. He served as governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1629–30), and worked harmoniously with his successor, John Winthrop, despite differences on points of religious doctrine. He served as governor again in 1644–45, 1649–50, 1651–54, and 1655–64, and as deputy governor in many of the intervening years. He is buried in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground in Boston.
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English American
From the mill farm. Famous Bearer: 17th century British poet, John Milton.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, in Bedfordshire, Merseyside, and Nottinghamshire, so named from Old English eofor ‘wild boar’ + tūn ‘settlement’.Described as being from Kent, England, Walter Everendon (d. 1725) was a colonial gunpowder manufacturer who ran a mill in Neponset in the township of Milton, across the river from Dorchester, MA. The first person to make gunpowder in America, Everendon eventually took majority interest in the mill and sold out to his son. The family, which also spelled their name Everden and Everton, continued to manufacture powder until after the Revolution.
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Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
v. i.
To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
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A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
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The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.
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Miltonic.
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A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
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A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."
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See 2d Milt.
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To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
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To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
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An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense.]
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The spermatic fluid of fishes.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
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A plant described by Milton as "of sovereign use against all enchantments."
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The spleen.
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A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.
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A male fish.
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A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton.
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The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion.