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verb

Mill v. t. (past & past part. milled; pres. part. milling)

1.

To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

2.

To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.

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.

4.

To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

5.

To beat with the fists. (Cant)

6.

To roll into bars, as steel.

To mill chocolate, to make it frothy, as by churning.

Mill v. t.

1.

(Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

2.

To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.

Mill v. i. (Zool.)

1.

To swim under water; said of air-breathing creatures.

2.

To undergo hulling, as maize.

3.

To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; usually used with around. "The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius."

4.

To swim suddenly in a new direction; said of whales.

5.

To take part in a mill; to box. (Cant)

adjective

Milled adj.

1.

Having been subjected to some process of milling.

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.

Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill.

Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Milled" Quotes from Famous Books

... details, it is noticeable that no tools are required to take the weapon to pieces and to put it together. By removing a milled headed screw seen to the left of the general view, every individual part of the lock action comes apart, and can be cleaned and put together again in a few minutes. This screw is numbered 24 in Fig. 4. To load the pistol the thumb piece (marked ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 • Various

... consequently the twelfth AEneid cost me double the time of the first and second. What had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with another book? I had certainly been reduced to pay the public in hammered money for want of milled; that is, in the same old words which I had used before; and the receivers must have been forced to have taken anything, where there was so little to ...

— Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry • John Dryden

... than a Spaniard. The mill hardly brought in ten pesetas a month now, and that was from friends—poor men like himself who were yet gentlemen, and found some carefully worded reason why they preferred home-milled flour. Tomaso, moreover, was deadly simple: there is nothing more fatal than simplicity in these days. It never occurred to him to sell his mill, or let it fall in ruins and go elsewhere for work. His world had always been bounded on the south ...

— Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories • Henry Seton Merriman

... agreed on, Frisbie came with the money to pay for the delivered wheat-crop; paid the entire sum in Spanish milled dollars; and spent an agreeable evening, discussing character, hearing Fabens's history from before the time of his settlement there; and giving incidents of his own life, and his adventures and ...

— Summerfield - or, Life on a Farm • Day Kellogg Lee

... variation from the above methods in the Bontoc area. In some of the large sementeras in the flat river bottom near Bontoc pueblo a herd of seventeen carabaos was skillfully milled round and round in the water, after the soil was turned, stirring and mixing the bed into a uniform ooze. The animals were managed by a man who drove them and turned them at will, using only his voice and a long switch. ...

— The Bontoc Igorot • Albert Ernest Jenks

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