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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

... o' them as has gone before, Master Ellis, sir. If I were you, I'd have the pond dragged up at the farm, and watter dreened off at Jagley's mill." ...

— A Life's Eclipse • George Manville Fenn

... you, my friend; I have business that must be done tonight," said Bonaparte. "Your dear son appears to have gone to sleep. He is going to take the wagon to the mill tomorrow! What a little ...

— The Story of an African Farm • (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner

... conscious of them. Instead of idealising life, if we may so express ourselves, it sentimentalises it. It does not subordinate incidents to ideas; yet it does not treat them simply as phenomena to excite curiosity, but as misfortunes or blessings to excite sentiment. The writer of the "Mill on the Floss" reaches almost the tragic pitch towards the close of her book, and if she had been content to leave us with the death of the heroine and her brother[20] in the flood, we might have supposed that in this case, as representing the annihilation of human ...

— An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times • Thomas Hill Green

... echoed, like its earliest predecessors, to the strains of the ballad opera which "made Gay rich and Rich gay." "The Beggar's Opera" was preceded, however, by "Love in a Village," for which Dr. Arne wrote and compiled the music; and Bickerstaff's "Maid of the Mill" was also in the repertory. In 1774 it was officially recommended that all places of amusement be closed. Then followed the troublous times of the Revolution, and it was not until twelve years afterward—that ...

— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... meal must be short. The heavy parts of the duty, like grinding the corn in hand-mills, were performed by servants. In the palace of Odysseus twelve female slaves were employed all day in grinding wheat and barley in an equal number of hand-mills, to supply the numerous guests. The hand-mill consisted (like those still used in some Greek islands) of two stones, each about two feet in diameter, the upper one of which was made to rotate by means of a crooked handle, so as to crush the corn poured through ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

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