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<hw>Mill</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>mille</ets> a thousand. Cf. <er>Mile</er>.]</ety> <def>A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.</def>

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<hw>Mill</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>mille</ets>, <ets>melle</ets>, <ets>mulle</ets>, <ets>milne</ets>, AS. <ets>myln</ets>, <ets>mylen</ets>; akin to D. <ets>molen</ets>, G. <ets>m\'81hle</ets>, OHG. <ets>mul\'c6</ets>, <ets>mul\'c6n</ets>, Icel. <ets>mylna</ets>; all prob. from L. <ets>molina</ets>, fr. <ets>mola</ets> millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to <ets>molere</ets> to grind, Goth. <ets>malan</ets>, G. <ets>mahlen</ets>, and to E. <ets>meal</ets>. <?/<?/<?/<?/. See <ets>Meal</ets> flour, and cf. <er>Moline</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A machine for grinding or commuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; <as>as, a grist<ex>mill</ex>, a coffee <ex>mill</ex>; a bone <ex>mill</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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>as, a cider <ex>mill</ex>; a cane <ex>mill</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A machine for grinding and polishing; <as>as, a lapidary <ex>mill</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>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>as, a saw<ex>mill</ex>; a stamping <ex>mill</ex>, etc.</as></def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; <as>as, a cotton <ex>mill</ex>; a powder <ex>mill</ex>; a rolling <ex>mill</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Die Sinking)</fld> <def>A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A passage underground through which ore is shot.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>A milling cutter. See <i>Illust</i>. under <er>Milling</er>.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>A pugilistic.</def> <mark></mark>

<i>R. D. Blackmore.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>Edge mill</col>, <col>Flint mill</col></mcol>, <cd>etc. See under <er>Edge</er>, <er>Flint</er>, etc.</cd> -- <col>Mill bar</col> <fld>(Iron Works)</fld>, <cd>a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.</cd> -- <col>Mill cinder</col>, <cd>slag from a puddling furnace.</cd> -- <col>Mill head</col>, <cd>the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill.</cd> -- <col>Mill pick</col>, <cd>a pick for dressing millstones.</cd> -- <col>Mill pond</col>, <cd>a pond that supplies the water for a mill.</cd> -- <col>Mill race</col>, <cd>the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.</cd> -- <col>Mill tail</col>, <cd>the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.</cd> -- <col>Mill tooth</col>, <cd>a grinder or molar tooth.</cd> -- <col>Mill wheel</col>, <cd>the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill.</cd> -- <col>Roller mill</col>, <cd>a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers.</cd> -- <col>Stamp mill</col> <fld>(Mining)</fld>, <cd>a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps.</cd> -- <col>To go through the mill</col>, <cd>to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Mill</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Milled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Milling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Mill</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and cf. <er>Muller</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To beat with the fists.</def> <mark></mark>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To roll into bars, as steel.</def>

<cs><col>To mill chocolate</col>, <cd>to make it frothy, as by churning.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Mill</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.</def>

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