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1
: a building provided with machinery for processing and especially for grinding grain into flour
2a
: a machine or apparatus for grinding grain
b
: a device or machine for reducing something (as by crushing or grinding) to small pieces or particles
a pepper mill
c
: a machine for hulling grain kernels (as of rice, oats, or spelt)
3
: a building or collection of buildings with machinery for manufacturing
a paper mill steel mills
4
: a machine that manufactures by the continuous repetition of some simple action
5a
: a machine formerly used for stamping coins
b
: a machine for expelling juice from vegetable tissues by pressure or grinding
a cider mill
7a
: a slow, laborious, or mechanical process or routine
Pacquiao has filed about a dozen bills as congressman but none has passed any of the committees they have been referred to, the first hurdle in the legislative mill.— Oliver Teves
b
: one that produces or processes people or things mechanically or in large numbers
a diploma mill a rumor mill
8
: a difficult and often educational experience
—used in the phrase through the mill
9
: the engine of an automobile or boat
transitive verb
1
: to subject to an operation or process in a mill: such as
a
: to grind into flour, meal, or powder
milling wheat
b
: to remove the outer layers of (seed kernels) : to subject to hulling
milling rice to remove the husk and bran layers
c
: to shape or dress by means of a rotary cutter
d
: to mix and condition (something, such as rubber) by passing between rotating rolls
2
: to give a raised rim or a ridged or corrugated edge to (a coin)
3
: to cut grooves in the metal surface of (something, such as a knob)
intransitive verb
1a
: to move about in a disorderly or aimless fashion
a crowd milling about outside the theater exit
b
of cattle
: to move about in a circling mass
2
: to hit out with the fists
3
: to undergo milling
seed too wet to mill properly
: a money of account equal to ¹/₁₀ cent
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James 1773–1836 Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist
John Stuart 1806–1873 son of James Mill English philosopher and economist
