mill 
miv-miU, plaintiff-mill, etc. This use of the word is, how- 
ever, limited and arbitrary, many machines which trans- 
form raw materials not being called mills. 
4. A machine which does its wovk by rotary 
motion, especially a lapidary wheel. 5. A 
treadmill. [Colloq.] 
A few weeks after I was grabbed for this, and got a 
month at the mitt; but I was quite innocent of prigging. 
Quoted in Mail/lew's London Labour and London Poor, 
[I. 890. 
6. (a) A building in which grinding is done : 
of ten in composition: as, a fl our-miK, water-wiH, 
wind/M, etc. (6) In metal., any establishment 
in which metalliferous ores are treated in the 
moist way, as by stamping and amalgamating, 
by grinding in pans, or by similar methods. 
Those works in which the reduction is performed by the 
aid of fire are usually designated smeUiny-worki, or some- 
times (especially in the case of iron) .furnaces. In the 
manufacture of iron a mill is an establishment where 
the metal in the rougher form (that is, in that of blooms, 
slabs, rough bars, etc.) is worked up into various kinds of 
merchantable iron, or into those forms which are desired 
by the different classes of consumers of the metal, such as 
rails, plates, merchant bars, and many other similar pro- 
ducts. ( c ) A large building used as a factory, 
and occupied by machinery for the purposes of 
manufacture: as, a silk-mill; a cotton-mitt. 
7. In calico-printing or bank-note engraving, a 
soft steel roller which receives under great 
pressure an impressed design in relief from a 
hardened steel engraved roll or die, and which 
is used in turn, after being hardened, to impart 
the design in intaglio to a calico-printing roll 
or note-printing plate. 8. [Cf. mill 1 , v., 1.] A 
snuff-box. Also mull. [Scotch. ] 
As soon as I can find my mill, 
Ye'se get a snuff wi' right guid will. 
Picken, Poems, I. 117. (Jamieson.) 
He plucked forth a huge horn snuff-box, or mull, as he 
called it, and proffered me. Scott, Rob Roy, vi. 
9. A kind of screw-press introduced during the 
reign of Elizabeth into England from France, 
and designed to supersede the manufacture of 
gold coins by the primitive method of striking 
dies with a hammer. It was introduced in 1661, dis- 
continued in 1572, reintroduced in 1656 and 1658, and per- 
manently adopted shortly after the restoration of Charles 
II. The more modern coining-press has supplanted this 
machine. The mill not only struck the legend, but also 
raised the rim on the margin and serrated the edge. These 
serrations were at first straight ; but, having been found 
easy to imitate by filing, they were made curvilinear in the 
reign of George II. 
Coining gold and silver with the mill and press. 
Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, II. iii. 
10. In mining, a passage or opening left for 
sending down stuff from the stopes to the level 
beneath. 11. [< ' milli, v., 10.] A pugilistic 
contest; a fight with the fists. [Slang.] 
One of the most gratifying mills in the annals of the 
school. Dickens, Our School. 
Barker's mill, an ingenious machine, moved by the cen- 
trifugal force of water, invented by Dr. Barker. It con- 
sists of a vertical axis CD, 
moving on a pivot at D, and 
carrying the upper millstone 
m, after passing through an 
opening in the fixed millstone 
n. Upon this vertical axis 
is fixed a vertical tube TT, 
communicating with a hori- 
zontal tube AB, at the ex- 
tremities of which, A and B, 
are two apertures in oppo- 
site directions. When water 
from the mill-course Jiff is 
introduced into the tube TT, 
it flows out of the apertures 
A and B, and by the pressure 
of the water on the parts of 
the tube opposite the aper- 
tures the arm AB, and conse- 
quently the whole machine, 
is put in motion. The bridge- 
tree ab is elevated or de- Barker's Mill. 
pressed by turning the nut c at the end of the lever cb. 
The grain to be ground is poured into the hopper H. As 
modified by Whitelaw it is used in Great Britain under 
the name of Scotch turbine. See turbine. Cannon-ball 
mill. See cannon-ball. Chilian nim^ a form of mill 
consisting of two heavy wheels or rollers, set parallel on a 
horizontal shaft, and having a double rotation, that on the 
horizontal shaft, and a second around a vertical axis con- 
trolling the horizontal shaft. The rollers travel in a vat 
or other suitable receptacle, and scrapers are usually 
provided to keep the material in the path of the wheels. 
This form of mill, wiich is of much antiquity, is now 
used especially for grinding oleaginous seeds, nuts, fruits, 
etc. See arrastre. Cone-and-cradle mill, a mill hav- 
ing a conical muller or grinder reciprocating in a semi- 
cylindrical concave or bed. E. H. Knight. Crooke's 
mill, an occasional name for Crooke's radiometer (which 
see, under radiometer). Edge-runner mm, a mill in 
which the millstones grind by their peripheral surfaces in- 
stead of by their flat surfaces. The stones are generally 
two in number (though a single one is sometimes usedji 
and run in a circular trough provided with a bottom of 
stone or of iron. The trough holds the material to be 
ground. The stones are pivoted to the ends of an axle 
like cart-wheels, and the axle is attached in the middle to 
a vertical shaftwhich rolls the stones around in the trough, 
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thus effecting both a rolling and a rubbing action upon 
the material to be ground. Such mills are used for grind- 
ing flaxseed preparatory to expressing the oil, in iron- 
foundries for grinding sand and clay, and for other pur- 
poses. Horizontal mill, a mill having the acting sur- 
faces in a horizontal plane at right angles to the vertical 
axis of the revolving stones, as in a grain-grinding mill. 
Hydraulic, lapidary, etc., mill See the adjectives. 
Levigating mill. See levigate!. Mouse mill, a com- 
bined electromagnetic engine and induction electrical ma- 
chine used for feeding forward the paper record-ribbon, 
and for electrifying the ink, in Thomson's siphon-record- 
er for submarine telegraphy. Revolving mill, a form of 
Chilian mill in which the pan turns while the axis of the 
rollers does not change its position ; a revolving-pan mill. 
To bring grist to the mill. See grist. Togo through 
the mill See 170. 
mill 1 (mil), v. [< wifii, .] I. trans. 1. To 
grind in a mill; grind; reduce to fine particles 
or to small pieces by grinding or other means. 
See milling. 
'Tis here ; this oval box well flll'd 
With best tobacco, finely mill'd. 
Cowper, To the Rev. William Bull. 
Raw crops and milled breadstuff s still sought the cheap- 
est rates of freight. 
O. W. Cable, Creoles of Louisiana, p. 249. 
2. To subject to the mechanical operations car- 
ried on in a mill, as a saw-mill or planing-mill ; 
shape or finish by machinery. Specifically, in 
ceram., to prepare (the clay) by passing it through a mill, 
which is usually of the form of an inverted cone, in the cen- 
ter of which is a vertical shaft set with knives. The clay, 
being thrown in at the top, is kneaded, cut, and pressed 
by the revolution of the shaft, and when it emerges from 
the bottom is plastic and ready for molding. See pug- 
imll. 
Lumbermen charge the consumer for the full measure 
ment of the boards [for floors) before they are milled. 
Art Age, IV. 46. 
3. To cut (metal) with a milling-tool in a mill- 
ing-machine. 4. To turn or upset the edge of 
(a coin) so as to produce a marginal ridge or 
flange on both sides, upon which, when laid 
flat, the coin rests, thus protecting the design 
which is inside of the flange from wear, and 
enabling the coins to lie firmly when piled to- 
gether one upon another. 5. To flute the 
edge of, as of a coin, or of any flat piece of 
metal, as the head of a milled screw or the 
rim of a metal box-cover, to afford a hold for 
the fingers. The screws of optical and surgical instru- 
ments, and other philosophical apparatus, and also the 
covers of lubricators for machinery, are commonly milled. 
Wood's halfpence are not milled, and therefore more 
easily counterfeited. Swift, Drapier's Letters, iii. 
6. To tumble (leather) in a hollow revolving 
cylinder in contact with oil or any ameliorate 
ing or tanning liquid, whereby the liquid is 
worked into all parts of the leather. 
Twenty-five sides [of leather] being placed in the wheel 
at one time and , . . gambier liquor poured over them, 
... in this wheel they are milled for about ten minutes. 
Davits, Leather, p. 497. 
7. To throw, as undyed silk. Encyc. Diet. 
8. To thicken by fulling; full (cloth), as in a 
fulling-mill. 9. To yield, in the process of 
grinding or milling. 10. To beat severely with 
the fists; fight. [Slang.] 
Having conquer'd the prime one that mill'd us all round, 
You kick'd him, old Ben, as he gasp'd on the ground. 
Moore, Political and Satirical Poems, Tom Crib to Big Ben. 
11. To cause to froth: as, to mill chocolate. 
Milled screw. See screw. 
II. in trans. 1 . To move in a circular direc- 
tion around a central point or object in a pur- 
poseless manner: said of cattle in herding on 
the plains. [U. S.] 
The cattle may begin to run, and then get milling that 
is, all crowd together into a mass like a ball, wherein they 
move round and round, trying to keep their heads towards 
the center, and refusing to leave it. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 862. 
2. To turn suddenly and change its course: 
said of a whale : as, the whale milled, and ran 
to leeward. C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, 
p. 311. 
mill 2 (mil), n. [< L. mille, pi. milia, millia, a 
thousand. From the L. mille are also ult. E. 
mile, million, the first element of millennium, 
milfoil, etc., and the latter part of billion, tril- 
lion, etc.] One thousandth part of anything; 
especially, in the monetary system of the United 
States, one thousandth of a dollar, or one tenth 
of a cent. 
mill 3 t (mil), n. [< ME. "mil, mylde (cf . AS. mil), 
< OF. mil, meil = Pr. mil, meilh = Sp. millo, mijo 
= Pg. milho = It. miglio, < L. milimn, millet. 
Cf. millet, in form a dim. of mill 3 ."] Millet. 
They make excellent drinke of Rise, of Will, and of honie, 
being well and high coloured like wine. 
HaMuyt's Voyages, I. 96. 
mill 4 t (mil), v. 1. and i. [Perhaps a particular 
use of milfl, r.] To steal. [Old slang.] 
millenarianism 
Can they cant or mUl? are they masters in their art? 
B. Jonson, Gipsies Metamorphosed. 
Millar's asthma. Same as laryngismus stridu- 
lus (which see, under laryngismus). 
mill-bar (mil ' bar) , n . Bough bar-iron as drawn 
out by the puddlers' rolls, as distinguished from 
merchant bar, which is finished bar-iron ready 
for sale. 
millboard (mil'bord), H. A stout kind of 
pasteboard especially used by binders for the 
stiff boards upon which the leather or other 
material for bindings is pasted or glued Mill- 
board cutter, a machine having a shaft bearing adjust- 
able knives, used for cutting millboard and cardboard to 
the sizes required for bookbinding or boxmaking. 
mill-cake (mil'kak), n. 1. In guiipowder- 
manuf., the cake or mass resulting from the 
incorporation of the materials. This cake is 
subjected to a process of granulation. 2. 
The by-product from linseed, consisting of 
what is left after the oil has been pressed out. 
mill-cinder (mil'sin"der), n. In iron-working, 
the slag of the puddling- or reheating-furnace. 
After being properly roasted, it consists essentially of the 
magnetic oxid of iron, and is used as fettling in puddling- 
furnaces, under the name of bulldog. 
mill-dam (mil'dam), n. 1. A dam designed to 
check the flow of a stream and cause the water 
to rise until a sufficient head has been obtained 
to furnish the power necessary for turning a 
mill-wheel. 
The which, once being brust, 
Like to great Mitt-damb forth fiercely gusht. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. xi. 31. 
2. A mill-pond. [Scotch.] 
milldewt, n. An obsolete spelling of mildew. 
mill-driver (mil'dri"ver), . The combination 
of devices by which is effected the immediate 
transmission of power from the motor to the 
runner-millstone of a mill. 
milled (mild), p. a. [Ppr. of milll, r.] 1. Made 
or prepared in or by a grinding-mill. 2. Hav- 
ing undergone the operations of a mill or coin- 
ing-press : as, milled money. See milled money. 
below. 
Four mill'd crown pieces (or twenty mill'd shillings of 
the present coin). Loclce, Lowering of Interest. 
3. Serrated or transversely grooved. 
A small condensing lens, and provided with a milled 
head whereby it can be rotated. Science, XII. 60. 
4. Having been formed or treated by machin- 
ery; specifically, in printing, made smooth by 
calendering rollers in a paper-mill Double- 
milled cloth, cloth which has been twice milled to give 
increased thickness. Milled cloth, cloth which has 
been thickened by beating until it is fulled or felted. 
Milled lead. See leai. Milled money, coins struck 
in a mill or coining-press, as distinguished from those 
produced from a die by striking it with a hammer. See 
hammered money (under hammeri), and compare coining- 
preis. [Milled money was invented by Antoine Brucher 
in France, and the first was so struck in that country about 
1553. Elizabeth of England coined milled money from 
about 1662 to 1572, when the use of the mill was discon- 
tinued, on account of its expense, till about 1656. After 
1662 it remained completely established, on account of 
many advantages which more than compensated for the 
cost. . . . It seems that they [milled sixpences] were some- 
times kept as counters. Nares.] 
Millefiori glass. See glass. 
millenarian (mil-e-na'ri-an), a. and n. [Some- 
times improp. millennarian; < millenary + -an.] 
I. a. Relating or pertaining to a thousand, spe- 
cifically to an expected millennial period of 
righteousness on earth; chiliastic: as, millena- 
rian speculations. 
II. . One who believes in the millennium; 
more specifically, one who believes that Christ 
will visibly reign on earth with his saints for a 
thousand years or for an indefinite period of 
time before the end of the world; a chiliast. 
See millennium. 
millenarianism (mil-e-na'ri-an-izm), n. [Some- 
times improp. milltnnarianism ; < millenarian + 
-ism.] The doctrine of or belief in the coming 
of the millennium ; the doctrine of the reap- 
pearance of Christ on earth, the establishment 
of his kingdom, the resurrection of the saints 
and of the remaining dead for the general judg- 
ment, and an intervening period of a thousand 
years (or of indefinite length) of perfect right- 
eousness. In the early church the doctrine of millena- 
rianism (chiliasm) was generally held, and many, both of 
the otherwise orthodox and of heretics, were accused of 
holding it in a literal or even a gross and sensual sense. 
Thus, after the fourth century it fell into general disfavor. 
As A. D. 1000 approached there was a wide-spread panic 
throughout Europe, under the idea that the prophetic 
thousand years had expired and that Satan would be let 
loose. Millenarianism showed itself again in the views of 
Anabaptists, Fifth Monarchy Men, Millerites, etc. See 
chiliasm, millennium, premiliennialism, postmillcnnialism. 
At various periods in the history of the Middle Ages we 
encounter sudden outbreaks of millennarianism. 
Encyc. Brit.. XVI. 317. 
