Definitions for "mill"
Keywords:  tenth, cent, thousandth, dollar, penny
A tenth of a penny; often used in property tax assessment.
A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
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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.
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 watermill. There were no windmills in England for another 100 years.
An average sized water mill in your dream augurs a peaceful happy home life. a commercial type mill signifies wealth acquired through the efforts of others. A sawmill portends upsetting news, and a windmill is a warning not to be so willing to trust strangers. To dream of a miller at work is a sign of coming improvements in your circumstances.
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
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.
The physical site where paper is manufactured; refers to a company that manufactures paper. Champion premium papers, for example, are manufactured at the Hamilton, Ohio mill. Champion is also referred to as a mill.
A company that processes raw materials into finished or industrial products. In the case of the printing paper industry, a mill will convert trees into wood chips, wood chips into pulp, and pulp into paper.
Keywords:  cattle, aimlessly, circle, plain, round
To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; -- usually used with around.
To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
usually the site of a water-powered industry, but sometimes also referring to the location of a log or lumber mill; sometimes named for the owner, sometimes for the stream location: as in Falls Mill, Cortner's Mill, Ledford Mill.
Site of processing operations. Used to determine cartage rates where a customer's logs may be carted to different sites. Forestry Victoria
Keywords:  pugilistic, encounter
A pugilistic encounter.
Keywords:  screw, ridge, coin, indentations, edge
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
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.
produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin"
Keywords:  bsw, simon, meta, towns, cloth
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
As part of the meta-game, towns are required to provide cloth based on their population. The Mill is where towns make cloth. It's BSW's version of the game Simon.
Keywords:  treadmill, short
Short for Treadmill.
Arithmetic and Logical Unit (ALU)
a unit of measure, one mil is equal to 0.001 inches or 25.400 microns, often used to indicate the thickness of a roofing membrane.
Keywords:  winze, incline, broken, drawn, interior
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.
Grinder, a definition used for blade grinders or manual grinders, for example Turkish mills or pepper mills
Keywords:  landmark, historic, national
a National Historic Landmark
Tumbling the skins in a large vessel to induce softness and other grain characteristics.
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
Keywords:  plank, strip, desired, flooring, wood
To cut wood into a desired shape, e.g., strip or plank flooring, etc.
Keywords:  fists, beat
To beat with the fists.
Keywords:  underground, shot, passage, ore
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
Keywords:  confused, manner, move
move about in a confused manner
Keywords:  yield, gross, minimum
Minimum Gross Yield
Keywords:  box, take, part
To take part in a mill; to box.