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Mill (mĭl), n. [L. mille a thousand. Cf. Mile.] A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
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Mill, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. mühle, OHG. mulī, mulīn, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. √108. See Meal flour, and cf. Moline.]
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1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or indented surfaces; as, “a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.”
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2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, “a cider mill; a cane mill.”
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3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, “a lapidary mill”.
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4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, “a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.”
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5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, “a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.”
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6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
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7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
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8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
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9. A pugilistic encounter. [Cant] R. D. Blackmore.
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10. Short for Treadmill.
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11. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
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12. A building or complex of buildings containing a mill1 or other machinery to grind grains into flour.
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Edge mill, Flint mill, etc. See under Edge, Flint, etc. -- Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. -- Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace. -- Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. -- Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones. -- Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill. -- Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel. -- Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows. -- Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth. -- Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. -- Gin mill, a tavern; a bar; a saloon; especially, a cheap or seedy establishment that serves liquor by the drink. -- Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers. -- Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by
stamps. -- To go through the mill, to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
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Mill (mĭl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled (mĭld); p. pr. & vb. n. Milling.] [See Mill, n., and cf. Muller.]
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1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
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2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
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3. To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
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4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
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5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] Thackeray.
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6. To roll into bars, as steel.
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To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.
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Mill, v. i. (Zool.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
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2. To undergo hulling, as maize.
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3. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; -- usually used with around.
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The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius. Kipling.
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4. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.
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5. To take part in a mill; to box. [Cant]
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Mill, v. t.
1. (Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
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2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
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