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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 mill·er /ˈmɪlɚ/
 廠主,粉蛾

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mill·er n.
 1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
 2. A milling machine.
 3. Zool. (a) A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller. (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
 Miller's thumb. Zool. (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species (Uranidea gobio), and the American (Uranidea gracilis); -- called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Miller
      n 1: United States bandleader of a popular big band (1909-1944)
           [syn: Glenn Miller, Alton Glenn Miller]
      2: United States novelist whose novels were originally banned
         as pornographic (1891-1980) [syn: Henry Miller, Henry
         Valentine Miller]
      3: United States playwright (born 1915) [syn: Arthur Miller]
      4: someone who works in a mill (especially a grain mill)
      5: machine tool in which metal that is secured to a carriage is
         fed against rotating cutters that shape it [syn: milling
         machine]
      6: any of various moths that have powdery wings [syn: moth
         miller]