Mill , v. t. 1. (Mining) To fill (a winze
or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
Mill , n.
1. Short for Treadmill.
2.
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
Mill (?), v. i. 1. To
undergo hulling, as maize.
2. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a
plain.
The deer and
the pig and
the nilghar were milling round and round in
a circle of
eight or ten miles radius.
Kipling. 3. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.
4. To take part
in a mill; to box. [Cant]
Mill , v. i. (Zoöl.) To swim under
water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
Mill (m&ibreve;l),
v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled (m&ibreve;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Milling.]
[See Mill, n., and cf. Muller.]
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 , 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.]
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.
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 sawmill; 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, 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.
-- 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 (m&ibreve;l),
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.
Hear it pronounced