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(1) - Mill (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. (2) - Mill (n.) 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. (3) - 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. (4) - Mill (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. (5) - 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. (6) - 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. (7) - 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. (8) - 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. (9) - Mill (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. (10) - Mill (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures. (11) - Mill (n.) A pugilistic. (12) - Mill (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. (13) - 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. (14) - 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. (15) - Mill (n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. (16) - Mill (n.) To beat with the fists. (17) - Mill (n.) To roll into bars, as steel. (18) - Mill (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |