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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

... mint and regulating the coins of the United States" shall commence at the Mint of the United States (which time shall be announced by the proclamation of the President of the United States), all foreign gold coins and all foreign silver coins, except Spanish milled dollars and parts of such dollars, shall cease to be ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 4) of Volume 1: John Adams • Edited by James D. Richardson

... 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

... here; The patentee was obliged to receive his coin from those who thought themselves surcharged, and to give gold and silver for it; Lastly, The patentee was to pay only 16l. 13s. 4d. per ann. to the crown. Then, as to the execution of that patent. First, I find the halfpence were milled, which, as it is of great use to prevent counterfeits (and therefore industriously avoided by Wood) so it was an addition to the charge of coinage. And for the weight and goodness of the metal; I have several ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. VI; The Drapier's Letters • Jonathan Swift

... not a very great deal that could be milled into high-grade paper pulp; and it's getting rapidly worked out in most other countries. Then, as a rule, it's mixed up with firs, cedars and cypresses; and that means the cutting of logging roads to each cluster of milling trees. There's another point—a good deal of the spruce lies back from ...

— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss

... and 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

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