=Millwood= (_Sarah_), the courtezan who enticed George Barnwell to rob his master and murder his uncle. Sarah Millwood spent all the money that George Barnwell obtained by these crimes, then turned him out of doors, and informed against him. Both were hanged.--George Lillo, _George Barnwell_ (1732). =Milly=, the wife of William Swidger. She is the good angel of the tale.--C. Dickens, _The Haunted Man_ (1848). =Milo=, an athlete of Croto´na, noted for his amazing strength. He could carry on his shoulders a four-year-old heifer. When old, Milo attempted to tear in twain an oak tree, but the parts, closing on his hands, held him fast, till he was devoured by wolves. _Milo_ (_The English_), Thomas Topham, of London (1710-1752). =Milton=, introduced by Sir Walter Scott in _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth). =Milton of Germany=, Frederick Gottlieb Klopstock, author of _The Messiah_, an epic poem (1724-1803). A very German Milton indeed. Coleridge. =Milton’s Monument=, in Westminster Abbey, was by Rysbrack. =Milvey= (_The Rev. Frank_), a “young man expensively educated and wretchedly paid, with quite a young wife and half a dozen young children. He was under the necessity of teaching ... to eke out his scanty means, yet was generally expected to have more time to spare than the idlest person in the parish, and more money than the richest.” _Mrs. Milvey_ (_Margaretta_), a pretty, bright little woman, emphatic and impulsive, but “something worn by anxiety. She had repressed many pretty tastes and bright fancies, and substituted instead schools, soup, flannel, coals, and all the week-day cares and Sunday coughs of a large population, young and old.”--C. Dickens, _Our Mutual Friend_ (1864). =Minagro´bis=, admiral of the cats in the great sea-fight of the cats and rats. Minagrobis won the victory by devouring the admiral of the rats, who had made three voyages round the world in very excellent ships, in which he was neither one of the officers nor one of the crew, but a kind of interloper.--Comtesse D’Aulnoy, _Fairy Tales_ (“The White Cat,” 1682). =Min´cing=, lady’s-maid to Millamant. She says _mem_ for ma’am, _fit_ for fought, _la’ship_ for ladyship, etc.--W. Congreve, _The Way of the World_ (1700). =Minikin= (_Lord_), married to a cousin of Sir John Trotley, but, according to _bon ton_, he flirts with Miss Tittup; and Miss Tittup, who is engaged to Colonel Tivy, flirts with a married man. _Lady Minikin_, wife of Lord Minikin. According to _bon ton_, she hates her husband, and flirts with Colonel Tivy; and Colonel Tivy, who is engaged to Miss Tittup, flirts with a married woman. It is _bon ton_ to do so.--Garrick, _Bon Ton_ (1760). =Minjekah´wun=, Hiawatha’s mittens, made of deer-skin. When Hiawatha had his mittens on, he could smite the hardest rocks asunder. He [_Hiawatha_] had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder.