| Mill |
n. |
A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
| Mill |
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A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. |
| Mill |
n. |
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. |
| Mill |
n. |
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. |
| Mill |
n. |
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. |
| Mill |
n. |
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. |
| Mill |
n. |
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. |
| Mill |
n. |
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |
| Mill |
n. |
A passage underground through which ore is shot. |
| Mill |
n. |
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. |
| Mill |
n. |
A pugilistic. |
| Mill |
n. |
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. |
| Mill |
n. |
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. |
| Mill |
n. |
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. |
| Mill |
n. |
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. |
| Mill |
n. |
To beat with the fists. |
| Mill |
n. |
To roll into bars, as steel. |
| Mill |
v. i. |
To swim under water;
said of air-breathing creatures. |
| Mill |
v. i. |
To undergo hulling, as maize. |
| Mill |
v. i. |
To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain. |
| Mill |
v. i. |
To swim suddenly in a new direction;
said of whales. |
| Mill |
v. i. |
To take part in a mill; to box. |
| Mill |
n. |
Short for Treadmill. |
| Mill |
n. |
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw. |
| Mill |
v. t. |
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom. |
| Mill |
v. t. |
To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle. |
