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. ] [ 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 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Milled 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 ]

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. ]

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. ]

n. A kind of stout pasteboard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having been subjected to some process of milling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: Having multiple fine grooves on the rim, in the direction from obverse to reverse; -- of coins. Coins of silver and gold were milled to make it impossible for uncrupulous persons to shave small pieces from the edge without detection. [ PJC ]

Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. --
Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets. [ 1913 Webster ]