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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: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bull·head n.
 1. Zool. (a) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. Uranidea gobio of Europe, and Uranidea Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb. (b) In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout. (c) A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.
 2. Zool. (a) The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead. (b) The golden plover.
 3. A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.]
 4. Zool. A small black water insect.
 Bullhead whiting Zool., the kingfish of Florida (Menticirrus alburnus).