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"If you like to overtake him, you have only to go along the path that leads to the meadow; and the mill is at the end of it Genestas preferred seeing the country to waiting about indefinitely for Benassis' return, so he set out along the way that led to the flour-mill.

—The Country Doctor

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noun A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal.
noun A device or mechanism that grinds grain.
noun A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing: a pepper mill.

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A mechanical device for grinding grain for food. Ancient mills, and those still in use in uncivilized or half-civilized countries, are simple devices for rubbing or pounding the grain, commonly two stones, one of which is moved upon the other byhand. The common modern mill consists essentially of two flat circular stones, one of which is moved upon the other, and between which the grain is triturated. The bedstone and runner are together called a run of stones. In some mills the under stone is therunner. Such a mill is called an “under-runner,” while an “upperrunner” is one like that shown in the cut. The bush, g, in the bedstone is fastened in its place by wedges, The balance-rynd, j, is a curved bar which crosses the eye or central opening of the runner on the under side at the margin of the eye and supports the stone. The supporting bearing of the balance-rynd is a central socket called a cockeye, and the supporting point of the spindle which fits the cockeye is called the cockhead. The spindle, balance-rynd, and runner-stone are raised or lowered by means of the bridge-tree and lighter-screw to adjust the runner properly in relation to the bedstone. The hopper, p, receives the grain to be ground, and delivers it to the shoe, which is loosely supported, and kept constantly vibrating by the rotation of thedamsel, a sort of trundle-wheel, the trundles of which chatter against the shoe. Flour is also made by cylinder-mills or roller-mills. The rollers act by crushing, by crushing and rubbing, as when they are caused to run with different peripheral velocities, or by a cutting or scraping action, as when they are serrated and revolved in such manner that the cutting edges of one roller act toward the cutting edges of the other. Thou combrest bothe foo & frende, Thi mylle hath grounde thi laste griste. Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 74. Much water goeth by the mill that the miller knoweth not of. J. Heywood., Proverbs (1546), ii. 5. Two women shall be grinding at the mill. Mat. xxiv. 41.
A machine for grinding or pulverizing any solid substance. The word in this use is generally in composition with a word denoting the purpose for which the mill is designed: as, paint-mill, quartz-mill, coffee-mill. One could see by the way he ground the coffee in the mill nailed to the wall that he was reckless of the results. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 294.
A machine which transforms raw material by a process other than grinding into forms fit for uses to which the raw material is unfitted. In this use also the word is generally in composition, as saw-mill, planing-mill, etc. This use of the word is, however, limited and arbitrary, many machines which transform raw materials not being called mills.

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A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
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.
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.
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
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.
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.
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
A pugilistic encounter.
Short for Treadmill.
The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, as a coin or screw.
A building or complex of buildings containing a mill{1} or other machinery to grind grains into flour.
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
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.
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
To beat with the fists.
To roll into bars, as steel.
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.

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One day he came to a mill, and the miller told him that he wanted an apprentice but did not care to engage one, because hitherto all his apprentices had run away in the night, and when he came down in the morning the mill was at a stand. — Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul
"If you like to overtake him, you have only to go along the path that leads to the meadow; and the mill is at the end of it Genestas preferred seeing the country to waiting about indefinitely for Benassis' return, so he set out along the way that led to the flour-mill. — The Country Doctor
The closing of the mill will be a blow to a community that thrived on its paper mills in the heyday, he said. — Sentinel & Enterprise Most Viewed
This mill was to be at Berryhill, a spot also on Sir Thomas's property, but in a different direction from Gortnaclough. — Castle Richmond
And he allowed that he would have the more time to hunt if the mill were a success. — The Crossing

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Middle English milne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, from feminine and neuter of molīnus, of a mill, from Latin mola, millstone, from molere, to grind; see melə- in Indo-European roots.
Short for Latin mīllēsimus, thousandth; see mil¹.

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from Middle English mille, melle, mulle, mylle, earlier miln, milne, myln, mulne, from Anglo-Saxon mylen, myln = OFries. mole = Dutch molen, meulen = Middle Low German mole, molle, Low German mölen = Old High German mulīn, mulī, Middle High German müle, mül, German mühle = Icelandic mylna = Swedish mölla = Danish mölle = French moulin = Spanish molino = Portuguese moinho = Italian mulino, from Late Latin molīna, a mill, orig. fem, of Latin molīnus, of a mill, from mola, a millstone, plural molæ, a mill (also grains of spelt ground) (= Greek μύλη, a millstone, mill), from molere, grind, = Gothic (Moesogothic) malan = Icelandic mala = Old High German malan = Anglo-Saxon malan, grind: see malm, meal, mold, etc. From the L. mola are also English mole, mole, molar, moline, etc., mullet, etc.
from mill, n.
from Latin mille, plural milia, millia, a thousand. From the L. mille are also ult. English mile, million, the first element of millennium, milfoil, etc., and the latter part of billion, trillion, etc.
from Middle English *mil, mylde (cf. Anglo-Saxon mīl), from Old French mil, meil = Provencal mil, meilh = Spanish millo, mijo = Portuguese milho = Italian miglio, from Latin milium, millet. Cf. millet, in form a diminutive of mill.
Perhaps a particular use of mill, v.

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