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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mill \Mill\, v. t. 1. (Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mill \Mill\, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m["u]hle, OHG. mul[imac], mul[imac]n, 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. [root]108. See Meal flour, and cf. {Moline}.] [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under {Milling}. [1913 Webster] 9. A pugilistic encounter. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore. [1913 Webster] 10. Short for {Treadmill}. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 11. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 12. A building or complex of buildings containing a mill[1] or other machinery to grind grains into flour. [PJC] {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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mill \Mill\ (m[i^]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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mill \Mill\, v. i. (Zool.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures. [1913 Webster] 2. To undergo hulling, as maize. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; -- usually used with around. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius. --Kipling. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 4. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 5. To take part in a mill; to box. [Cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mill \Mill\ (m[i^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milled} (m[i^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Milling}.] [See {Mill}, n., and cf. {Muller}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. [1913 Webster] 2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. [1913 Webster] 5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 6. To roll into bars, as steel. [1913 Webster] {To mill chocolate}, to make it frothy, as by churning. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: mill n 1: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: {factory}, {mill}, {manufacturing plant}, {manufactory}] 2: Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) [syn: {Mill}, {James Mill}] 3: English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873) [syn: {Mill}, {John Mill}, {John Stuart Mill}] 4: machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing [syn: {mill}, {grinder}, {milling machinery}] 5: the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: {grind}, {mill}, {pulverization}, {pulverisation}] v 1: move about in a confused manner [syn: {mill}, {mill about}, {mill around}] 2: grind with a mill; "mill grain" 3: produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin" 4: roll out (metal) with a rolling machine