Definition of Moth miller

1. Noun. Any of various moths that have powdery wings.

Exact synonyms: Miller
Generic synonyms: Moth

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moth Miller

motels
moten
motes
motesanib
motet
motets
motett
motetts
motey
moth
moth-eaten
moth-eaten alopecia
moth-er
moth-resistant
moth bean
moth miller (current term)
moth mullein
moth orchid
moth patch
moth plant
mothball
mothballed
mothballing
mothbally
mothed
mothen
mother's boy
mother's daughter

Literary usage of Moth miller

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa by Edgar Watson Howe (1913)
"strikes at a moth miller when around home. I never knew a man so dignified that he wouldn't take a smash at a moth miller. . . . The Bulawayo newspaper ..."

2. American Medical Journal (1903)
"This furnished the moth-miller free access to deposit the eggs in ... The moth-miller stands ready to demonstrate the fallacy of the moth ball at any time ..."

3. Ninth Annual Old Glory Horse Auction of America's Greatest Light Horses at ...by Fasig-Tipton Co by Fasig-Tipton Co (1903)
"Half-sister to moth miller, 2:07. Trotter; bred by Col. Jno. E. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass ... Dam of moth miller, 2:07; Milliner. 2:28 it George Wilkes. 619 . ..."

4. The First-[sixth] Reader of the Popular Series by Marcius Willson (1881)
"They grow from little eggs that are laid on the limbs of the trees, and glued there, by a moth-miller. 6. " When the canker-worm has eaten enough, ..."

5. Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa by Edgar Watson Howe (1913)
"strikes at a moth miller when around home. I never knew a man so dignified that he wouldn't take a smash at a moth miller. . . . The Bulawayo newspaper ..."

6. American Medical Journal (1903)
"This furnished the moth-miller free access to deposit the eggs in ... The moth-miller stands ready to demonstrate the fallacy of the moth ball at any time ..."

7. Ninth Annual Old Glory Horse Auction of America's Greatest Light Horses at ...by Fasig-Tipton Co by Fasig-Tipton Co (1903)
"Half-sister to moth miller, 2:07. Trotter; bred by Col. Jno. E. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass ... Dam of moth miller, 2:07; Milliner. 2:28 it George Wilkes. 619 . ..."

8. The First-[sixth] Reader of the Popular Series by Marcius Willson (1881)
"They grow from little eggs that are laid on the limbs of the trees, and glued there, by a moth-miller. 6. " When the canker-worm has eaten enough, ..."

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