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MILL, n. [L. mille, a thousand.] A money of account of the United States, value the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. MILL, n. [L. mola, molo, mel, honey, mollis; Eng. mellow, mild, mold, meal. 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, v.t. To grind; to comminute; to reduce to fine particles or to small pieces. 1. To beat up chocolate.2. To stamp coin.3. To full, as cloth.
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MILL, n. [L. mille, a thousand.] A money of account of the United States, value the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. MILL, n. [L. mola, molo, mel, honey, mollis; Eng. mellow, mild, mold, meal. 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, v.t. To grind; to comminute; to reduce to fine particles or to small pieces. 1. To beat up chocolate.2. To stamp coin.3. To full, as cloth. | MILL, n.1 [L. mille, a thousand.]A money of account of the United States, value the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. MILL, n.2 [Sax. miln; W. melin; Ir. meile or muilean; Corn. melyn; Ann. mell or melin; Fr. moulin; L. mola; Gr. μυλη, μυλος; G. mühle; D. molen; Sw. möl; Dan. mölle; Sp. molino; mulino; Russ. melnitsa; Goth. malan, to grind, Ir. meilim, Fr. moudre, for mouldre, W. malu, Arm. mala or malein, Sp. moler, L. molo, G. mahlen, D. maalen, Sw. mäla, Dan. maler; Port. moêr, by contraction, Russ. melyu. It is not certain which is the original word, the noun or the verb; or whether both are from a prior radical sense. We observe that the elements of this word coincide with those of L. mel, honey, mollis, Eng. mellow, mild, mold, meal, W. mall, &c. all expressive of softness. Grinding is now breaking by friction or pressure, but not improbably grain was pulverized by beating or pounding before the use of the quern. If so, mill may coincide in origin with mallet. We observe that this word is in the languages of all the great European families, Celtic, Teutonic and Slavonic.]- 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.
- The house or building that contains the machinery for grinding, &c.
MILL, v.t.- To grind; to comminute; to reduce to fine particles or to small pieces.
- To beat up chocolate. Johnson.
- To stamp coin.
- To full, as cloth.
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- A money of account of the United
States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of
a dollar.
- 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.
- To reduce to fine particles, or to small
pieces, in a mill] to grind; to comminute.
- To
swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
- To undergo hulling, as maize.
- Short
for Treadmill.
- To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken
ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- 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.
- To shape, finish, or transform by passing
through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by
means of a rotary cutter.
- To move in a circle, as cattle upon a
plain.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made
in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
- To cause to mill, or circle round, as
cattle.
- A machine for grinding and polishing; as,
a lapidary mill.
- 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.
- To swim suddenly in a new direction; --
said of whales.
- 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.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full,
as cloth.
- To take part in a mill; to box.
- 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.
- To beat with the fists.
- A hardened steel
roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy
of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
- To roll into bars, as steel.
- An
excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material
for filling is obtained.
- A milling cutter. See Illust. under
Milling.
- A pugilistic encounter.
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Mill MILL, noun [Latin mille, a thousand.] A money of account of the United States, value the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. MILL, noun [Latin mola, molo, mel, honey, mollis; Eng. mellow, mild, mold, meal. 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, etc. 2. The house or building that contains the machinery for grinding, etc. MILL, verb transitive To grind; to comminute; to reduce to fine particles or to small pieces. 1. To beat up chocolate. 2. To stamp coin. 3. To full, as cloth.
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