mill

mill
    n 1: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities
         for manufacturing [syn: {factory}, {mill}, {manufacturing
         plant}, {manufactory}]
    2: Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism;
       father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836) [syn: {Mill}, {James
       Mill}]
    3: English philosopher and economist remembered for his
       interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
       [syn: {Mill}, {John Mill}, {John Stuart Mill}]
    4: machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
       [syn: {mill}, {grinder}, {milling machinery}]
    5: the act of grinding to a powder or dust [syn: {grind},
       {mill}, {pulverization}, {pulverisation}]
    v 1: move about in a confused manner [syn: {mill}, {mill about},
         {mill around}]
    2: grind with a mill; "mill grain"
    3: produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin"
    4: roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
    

Mill \Mill\, v. i. (Zool.)
   To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
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   2. To undergo hulling, as maize.
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   3. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move
      around aimlessly; -- usually used with around.
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            The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling
            round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles
            radius.                               --Kipling.
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   4. To swim suddenly in a new direction; -- said of whales.
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   5. To take part in a mill; to box. [Cant]
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Mill \Mill\, v. t.
   1. (Mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken
      ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
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   2. To cause to mill, or circle round, as cattle.
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Mill \Mill\ (m[i^]l), n. [L. mille a thousand. Cf. {Mile}.]
   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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Mill \Mill\, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln,
   mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m["u]hle, OHG. mul[imac],
   mul[imac]n, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola
   millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind,
   Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. [root]108. See Meal
   flour, and cf. {Moline}.]
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   1. 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.
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   2. 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.
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   3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
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   4. 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.
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   5. 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.
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   6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in
      relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design
      in a softer metal, as copper.
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   7. (Mining)
      (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings,
          from which material for filling is obtained.
      (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
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   8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under {Milling}.
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   9. A pugilistic encounter. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore.
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   10. Short for {Treadmill}.
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   11. The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling
       anything, as a coin or screw.
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   12. A building or complex of buildings containing a mill[1]
       or other machinery to grind grains into flour.
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   {Edge mill}, {Flint mill}, etc. See under {Edge}, {Flint},
      etc.

   {Mill bar} (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly
      from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant
      iron in the mill.

   {Mill cinder}, slag from a puddling furnace.

   {Mill head}, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of
      a mill.

   {Mill pick}, a pick for dressing millstones.

   {Mill pond}, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.

   {Mill race}, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill
      wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.

   {Mill tail}, the water which flows from a mill wheel after
      turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.

   {Mill tooth}, a grinder or molar tooth.

   {Mill wheel}, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a
      mill.

   {Gin mill}, a tavern; a bar; a saloon; especially, a cheap or
      seedy establishment that serves liquor by the drink.

   {Roller mill}, a mill in which flour or meal is made by
      crushing grain between rollers.

   {Stamp mill} (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by
      stamps.

   {To go through the mill}, to experience the suffering or
      discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of
      knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
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Mill \Mill\ (m[i^]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milled} (m[i^]ld); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Milling}.] [See {Mill}, n., and cf. {Muller}.]
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   1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a
      mill; to grind; to comminute.
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   2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a
      machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by
      means of a rotary cutter.
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   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.
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   4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
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   5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] --Thackeray.
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   6. To roll into bars, as steel.
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   {To mill chocolate}, to make it frothy, as by churning.
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Arithmetic and Logic Unit
mill

   <processor> (ALU or "mill") The part of the {central
   processing unit} which performs operations such as addition,
   subtraction and multiplication of integers and {bit-wise}
   {AND}, {OR}, {NOT}, {XOR} and other {Boolean} operations.  The
   CPU's instruction decode logic determines which particular
   operation the ALU should perform, the source of the {operands}
   and the destination of the result.

   The width in {bits} of the words which the ALU handles is
   usually the same as that quoted for the processor as a whole
   whereas its external busses may be narrower.  {Floating-point}
   operations are usually done by a separate "{floating-point
   unit}".  Some processors use the ALU for address calculations
   (e.g. incrementing the {program counter}), others have
   separate logic for this.

   (1995-03-24)
    

Mill
for grinding corn, mentioned as used in the time of Abraham
(Gen. 18:6). That used by the Hebrews consisted of two circular
stones, each 2 feet in diameter and half a foot thick, the lower
of which was called the "nether millstone" (Job 41:24) and the
upper the "rider." The upper stone was turned round by a stick
fixed in it as a handle. There were then no public mills, and
thus each family required to be provided with a hand-mill. The
corn was ground daily, generally by the women of the house (Isa.
47:1, 2; Matt. 24:41). It was with the upper stone of a
hand-mill that "a certain woman" at Thebez broke Abimelech's
skull (Judg. 9:53, "a piece of a millstone;" literally, "a
millstone rider", i.e., the "runner," the stone which revolves.
Comp. 2 Sam. 11:21). Millstones could not be pledged (Deut.
24:6), as they were necessary in every family.
    

MILL, money. An imaginary money, of which ten are equal to one cent, one 
hundred equal to a dime, and one thousand equal to a dollar. There is no 
coin of this denomination. Vide Coin; Money. 
    

MILL, estates. Mills are so very different and various, that it is not easy 
to give a definition of the term. They are used for the purpose of grinding 
and pulverising grain and other matters, to extract the juices of 
vegetables, to make various articles of manufacture. They take their names 
from the uses to which they are employed, hence we have paper-mills, 
fulling-mills, iron-mills, oil-mills, saw-mills, &c. In another respect 
their kinds are various; they are either fixed to the freehold or not. Those 
which are a part of the freehold, are either watermills, wind-mills, steam-
mills, &c.; those which are not so fixed, are hand-mills, and are merely 
personal property. Those which are fixed, and make a part of the freehold, 
are buildings with machinery calculated to obtain the object proposed in 
their erection. 
     2. It has been held that the grant of a mill; and its appurtenances, 
even without the land, carries the whole right of water enjoyed by the 
grantor, as necessary to its use, and as a necessary incident. Cro. Jac. 
121, And a devise of a mill carries the land used with it, and the right to 
use the water. 1 Serg. & Rawle, 169; and see 5 Serg. & Rawle, 107; 2 Caine's 
Ca. 87; 10 Serg. & Rawle, 63; 1 Penna. R. 402; 3 N. H. Rep. 190; 6 Greenl. 
R. 436; Id. 154; 7 Mass. Rep. 6; 5 Shepl. 281. 
     3. A mill means not merely the building, in which the business is 
carried on, but includes the site, the dam, and other things annexed to the 
freehold, necessary for its beneficial enjoyment. 3 Mass R. 280. See Vide 6 
Greenl. R. 436. 
     4. Whether manufacturing machinery will pass under the grant of a mill 
must depend mainly on the circumstances of each case. 5 Eng. C. L. R. 168; 
S. C. 1 Brod. & Bing. 506. In England the law appears not to be settled. 1 
Bell's Com. 754, note 4, 5th ed. In this note are given the opinions of Sir 
Samuel Romily and Mr. Leech, on a question whether a mortgage of a piece of 
land on which a mill was erected, would operate as a mortgage of the 
machinery. Sir Samuel was clearly of opinion that such a mortgage would bind 
the machinery, and Mr. Leech was of a directly opposite opinion. 
     5. The American law on this subject, appears not to be entirely fixed. 
1 Hill. Ab. 16; 1 Bailey's R. 540; 3 Kent, Com. 440; see Amos & Fer., on 
Fixt., 188, et seq.; 1 Atk. 165; 1 Ves. 348; Sugd. Vend. 30; 6 John. 5; 10 
Serg. & Rawle, 63; 2 Watts & Serg. 116; 6 Greenl. 157; 20 Wend. 636; 1 H. 
Bl. 259, note; 17 S. & R. 415; 10 Amer. Jur. 58; 1 Misso. R. 620; 3 Mason, 
464; 2 Watts & S. 390. Vide 15 Vin. Ab. 398; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t. 6 
Cowen, 677. 
    

292 Moby Thesaurus words for "mill":
      C, C-note, G, G-note, Vandyke, abrade, amble, armory, arrastra,
      arsenal, assemble, assembly line, assembly plant,
      atomic energy plant, atomize, average, ball mill, basic,
      be turbulent, beat, bindery, blaze, blooming mill, boatyard,
      boilery, bone mill, bookbindery, bray, brecciate, brewery,
      brickyard, buck, bunch, bunch up, cane mill, cannery, cartwheel,
      carve, cent, century, cheese grater, chisel, chop, cider mill,
      clot, cluster, collect, come together, comminute, comminutor,
      common, congregate, contriturate, converge, convert, copper,
      copulate, couple, creamery, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, crowd,
      crumb, crumble, crunch, crush, crusher, cultivate, cut, dairy,
      date, defense plant, dime, disintegrate, distillery, dockyard,
      dollar, dollar bill, drag-stone mill, everyday, experienced,
      extract, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant,
      fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars,
      five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver,
      flock together, flour, flour mill, flow together, forgather,
      foundry, four bits, fragment, frogskin, fuse, gang around, gang up,
      garden-variety, gash, gather, gather around, grain, grand,
      granulate, granulator, granulize, grate, grater, grind,
      grind to powder, grinder, grinding mill, gristmill, grow, half G,
      half a C, half dollar, half grand, hardened, harvest,
      herd together, hive, horde, huddle, hundred-dollar bill,
      in the know, incise, indent, industrial park, industrial zone,
      instrument, iron man, jag, knowledgeable, knurl, kominuter,
      lapidary mill, league, levigate, levigator, link, machicolate,
      machine, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant,
      manufacturing quarter, mash, masher, mass, masticate, meander,
      mechanize, meet, merge, mill around, milling machine, millstone,
      mince, mine, mint, moil, mortar and pestle, motorize,
      munitions plant, muster, nick, nickel, notch, nutmeg grater,
      oil refinery, ordinary, packing house, paper mill, penny,
      pepper mill, pestle, picot, pink, plant, pottery, pound, powder,
      power plant, process, production line, pulverize, pulverizer, pump,
      push-button plant, quarter, quern, quernstone, raise, rally,
      rally around, rear, red cent, reduce to powder, refine, refinery,
      rendezvous, retool, rock crusher, roil, roller, rolling mill,
      run-of-the-mill, sawbuck, sawmill, scallop, scarify, score, scotch,
      scrunch, seasoned, seethe, serrate, shard, sharpen, sheet mill,
      shipyard, shop, shred, shredder, silk mill, silver dollar, simple,
      skin, slab mill, slash, smacker, smash, smelt, smoothing mill,
      sophisticated, spice mill, squash, stamp mill, stamps, steamroller,
      steel mill, stir, stream, stroll, subassembly plant, sugar mill,
      sugar refinery, surge, swarm, tannery, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner,
      thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, throng, tool, tooth,
      toughened, treadmill, triturate, triturator, twenty-dollar bill,
      twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot,
      unexceptional, unite, unremarkable, walk, wander, water mill,
      windmill, winery, woolen mill, works, workshop, yard, yards