'Mill' definitions:

Definition of 'mill'

From: WordNet
noun
A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory]
noun
Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) [syn: Mill, James Mill]
noun
English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873) [syn: Mill, John Mill, John Stuart Mill]
noun
Machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing [syn: mill, grinder, milling machinery]
noun
The act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: grind, mill, pulverization, pulverisation]
verb
Move about in a confused manner [syn: mill, mill about, mill around]
verb
Grind with a mill; "mill grain"
verb
Produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin"
verb
Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine

Definition of 'Mill'

From: 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]

Definition of 'Mill'

From: 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]

Definition of 'Mill'

From: 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]

Definition of 'Mill'

From: 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.]

Definition of 'Mill'

From: 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.]

Definition of 'Mill'

From: Easton
  • Mill for grinding corn, mentioned as used in the time of Abraham (Gen. 18:6). That used by the Hebrews consisted of two circular stones, each 2 feet in diameter and half a foot thick, the lower of which was called the "nether millstone" (Job 41:24) and the upper the "rider." The upper stone was turned round by a stick fixed in it as a handle. There were then no public mills, and thus each family required to be provided with a hand-mill. The corn was ground daily, generally by the women of the house (Isa. 47:1, 2; Matt. 24:41). It was with the upper stone of a hand-mill that "a certain woman" at Thebez broke Abimelech's skull (Judg. 9:53, "a piece of a millstone;" literally, "a millstone rider", i.e., the "runner," the stone which revolves. Comp. 2 Sam. 11:21). Millstones could not be pledged (Deut. 24:6), as they were necessary in every family.

Synonyms of 'mill'

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