Definition of Mill

Mill

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 intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.

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.

A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.

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.

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.

A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.

An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.

A passage underground through which ore is shot.

A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.

A pugilistic.

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

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

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

To beat with the fists.

To roll into bars, as steel.

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

To undergo hulling, as maize.

To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain.

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

To take part in a mill; to box.

Short for Treadmill.

The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.

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

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

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Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.
John Polkinghorne

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
James Nasmyth

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
Amy Grant

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
Roger Bannister

The village had a mill near it, situated on the little creek, which made very good flour. The population consisted of civilized Indians, but much mixed blood.
Zebulon Pike

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.
Simon Newcomb

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
Sally Quinn

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
B. R. Ambedkar

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
Ezra Cornell