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Mill

noun

1.

A plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing. Synonyms: factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant.

2.

Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836). Synonym: James Mill.

3.

English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873). Synonyms: John Mill, John Stuart Mill.

4.

Machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing. Synonyms: grinder, milling machinery.

5.

The act of grinding to a powder or dust. Synonyms: grind, pulverisation, pulverization.

verb

(past & past part. milled; pres. part. milling)

1.

Move about in a confused manner. Synonyms: mill about, mill around.

2.

Grind with a mill.

3.

Produce a ridge around the edge of.

4.

Roll out (metal) with a rolling machine.

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"Mill" Quotes from Famous Books

... are in a mill. I have a fine large room, also first-rate stabling for my horses. Brigade Headquarters are in one of those magnificent chateaux that are dotted over this part of France. A gorgeous place it must have been in time of peace, and so it is now except that it is beginning to show signs ...

— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

... is the language of common oral speech, free and unrestrained. The rigid forms of the grammar are eschewed. There is no beating around the bush. Seeing through the eyes of the child, he uses the language that is natural to such sight: "Aha! there sat the dog with eyes as big as mill-wheels." In quick dramatic fashion the story unrolls before your vision: "So the soldier cut the witch's head off. There she lay!" No agonizing over the cruelty of it, the lack of sympathy. It is a joke ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... be a queen indeed! Peace; or war, famine and the plague. Summon the executioner. Arrest Durga Ram. Strip him before my eyes of his every insignia of rank. He is a murderer. He shall go to the tread-mill, there to slave till death. I have ...

— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath

... The "literary" magazines, it is true, more frequently surprise one by a story told with original and consummate art; but then the "popular" magazines balance this merit by their more frequent escape from mere prettiness. In both kinds, the majority of the stories come from the same mill, even though the minds that shape them may differ in refinement and in taste. Their range is narrow, and, what is more damning, their art seems constantly to ...

— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

... for, on the transparent side, we saw certain strange figures circularly drawn, and thought we could touch them, till we found our fingers stopped by that lucid substance. He put this engine to our ears, which made an incessant noise like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture it is either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us (if we understood him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly), ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester

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