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Webster 1913 Edition
Mill
Mill
(mĭl)
, Noun.
[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.
Mill
,Noun.
[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
.] 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 grist
mill
, a coffee mill
; a bone mill
.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
.3.
A machine for grinding and polishing;
as, a lapidary
. mill
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 saw
mill
; a stamping mill
, etc.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
.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.
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.
8.
A milling cutter. See Illust. under
Milling
. 9.
A pugilistic encounter.
[Cant]
R. D. Blackmore.
Edge mill
, Flint mill
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.
Mill
(mĭl)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Milled
(mĭld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Milling
.] 1.
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
2.
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
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.
4.
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
5.
To beat with the fists.
[Cant]
Thackeray.
6.
To roll into bars, as steel.
To mill chocolate
, to make it frothy, as by churning.
Mill
,Verb.
I.
(Zool.)
To swim under water; – said of air-breathing creatures.
Webster 1828 Edition
Mill
MILL
,Noun.
MILL
,Noun.
1.
A complicated engine or machine for grinding and reducing to fine particles, grain, fruit or other substance, or for performing other operations by means of wheels and a circular motion; as a grist-mill for grain; a coffee-mill; a cider-mill; a bark-mill. The original purpose of mills was to comminute grain for food, but the word mill is now extended to engines or machines moved by water, wind or steam, for carrying on many other operations. We have oil-mills, saw-mills, slitting-mills, bark-mills, fulling-mills,&c.2.
The house or building that contains the machinery for grinding, &c.MILL
,Verb.
T.
1.
To beat up chocolate.2.
To stamp coin.3.
To full, as cloth.