Definition of Mill

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thousand; a thousand; [mille passuum => thousand paces = a mile]

(1773-1836)

(1806-1873) philosopher; utilitarian ethics; greatest good for the greatest number. Wrote Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy. Ideas such as matter and causality are admitted if interpreted phenomenalistically, as, e.g., "possibilities of sensation." Knowledge of God is possible as an inference from knowledge of the world (from sense data). The uniformity of nature makes possible
knowledge of a world as cause of sense data. "Matter is the permanent possibility of sensation." Reality is not an independent mental or material substance but a
complex of actual and possible sensations. Material and mental entities are constructed from sense data. Sense data belong to a subjective mind (as in idealism) and the objective world (as in realism). Realism is ordered by an invariable principle
of causality (determinism).

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
  

(n.)
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
  

(n.)
A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
  

(n.)
A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
  

(n.)
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
  

(n.)
A pugilistic.
  

(n.)
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
  

(n.)
To beat with the fists.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
  

(n.)
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
  

(n.)
To roll into bars, as steel.
  

(n.)
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
  

(v. i.)
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
  

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mill
\mill\ (m&ibreve;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.
mill
\mill\, n. [oe. mille, melle, mulle, milne, as. myln, mylen; akin to d. molen, g. mühle, ohg. mulī, mulīn, 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. ?108. see meal flour, and cf. moline.]
1. a machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
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.
3. a machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8. a milling cutter. see illust. under milling.
9. a pugilistic. [cant] d. blackmore.

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 cane mill 
 tilt-mill 
 mill race 
 mill pick 
 mill-sixpence 
 mill-cake 
 edge mill 
 john stuart mill 
 barker`s mill 
 lead mill 
 woad mill 
 water mill 
 craze-mill 
 chilian mill 
 crazing-mill 
 gray mill or millet 
 to mill chocolate 
 mill around 
 gastric mill 
 mill wheel 
 rolling mill 
 throwing mill 
 tide mill 
 smut mill 
 flint mill 
 pug mill 
 current mill 
 sugar mill 
 mill cinder 
 all is grist that comes to his mill 
 clay mill 
 run-of-the-mill 
 stamp mill 
 gig mill 
 walk-mill 
 to go through the mill 
 mill about 
 john mill 
 mill pond 
 mill bar 
 roller mill 
 turning and boring mill 
 mill head 
 quartz mill 
 minting mill 
 warping mill 
 post mill 
 cider mill 
 grinding mill 
 mill tooth 
 fanning mill 
 cylinder mill 
 mill tail 
 textile mill 

Meaning
Every little helps to move toward a conclusion.
Origin
Grist was the abrasive grit which was added to wheat when it was ground between grinding stones to help the flour grind more quickly.

destroy, ruin

muilionn, muilleann m.
prov., God's mill may grind slowly, but it grinds finely: Meallan muilte Dé go mall ach meallan siad go mion.

Mill = n. the voilet

Goflawd = n. mill dust

Gwythbanu = v. to double mill

Hopran = n. a mill hopper

Melin = n. a mill, a grinder

Pandy = n. a fulling mill

SIXPENCE: a milled sixpence

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Noun
1. Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism; father of John Stuart Mill (1773-1836)
(synonym) James Mill
(hypernym) philosopher
2. English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (1806-1873)
(synonym) John Mill, John Stuart Mill
(hypernym) philosopher

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Noun
1. a plant consisting of buildings with facilities for manufacturing
(synonym) factory, manufacturing plant, manufactory
(hypernym) plant, works, industrial plant
(hyponym) assembly plant
(part-meronym) production line, assembly line, line
(class) closed-circuit television
2. machine that processes materials by grinding or crushing
(synonym) grinder
(hypernym) machine
(hyponym) cider mill
3. the act of grinding to a powder or dust
(synonym) grind, pulverization, pulverisation
(hypernym) crush, crunch, compaction

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Verb
1. move about in a confused manner
(synonym) mill about, mill around
(hypernym) move
2. grind with a mill; "mill grain"
(hypernym) grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute
(derivation) grind, pulverization, pulverisation
3. produce a ridge around the edge of; "mill a coin"
(hypernym) groove
(derivation) milling
4. roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
(hypernym) roll out, roll

One-tenth of one cent. Some states use a mill rate to compute real estate taxes; for example, a rate of 52 mills would be $0.052 tax for each dollar of assessed valuation of a property.

To grind up to pulverize with a milling tool (q.v.). a downhole tool with rough, sharp, extremely hard cutting surfaces for removing metal by grinding or cutting. Mills are run on drill pipe or tubing to grind up debris in the hole, remove stuck portions of drill stem or sections of casing for sidetracking, and ream out tight spots in the casing. They are also called junk mills, reaming mills, and so forth, depending on what use they have. P to use a mill to cut or grind metal objects that must be removed from a well.

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To dream of a mill, indicates thrift and fortunate undertakings.

To see a dilapidated mill, denotes sickness and ill fortune.

See Cotton Mill, etc.
  

A monetary cost and billing unit used by utilities; it is equal to 1/1000 of the U.S. dollar (equivalent to 1/10 of 1 cent).

A tool configured with a rough, sharp and extremely hard cutting surface used for removing metal or resistive materials by grinding, cutting or chipping.

1. Often used to refer to the whole engine.
2. To remove metal through the use of a rotating toothed cutter.

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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, etc. 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, etc.; 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.

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. And a devise of a mill carries the land used with it, and the right to use the water.

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.

Whether manufacturing machinery will pass under the grant of a mill must depend mainly on the circumstances of each case. In England the law appears not to be settled. The American law on this subject, appears not to be entirely fixed.

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. While there is no coin of this denomination the term is often used in relation to real estate taxes and as a measure of value re discount coupons.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.

Littlemill 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 24 YO, Single Malt Scotch Whisky

By: Littlemill Distillery Co. Ltd.

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• Littlemill Distillery
(Inactive since 1994)
Established in 1772
One of the oldest distillery in Scotland.
Water source: Kilpatrick Hill springs
Location: Bowling, Dumbartonshire, Western Lowlands (Scotland)
Other neighboring distillers: Dumbarton, Strathclyde, Port Dundas
Owner: Loch Lomond Distillery Co. (Scotland)

(closed in 1962)
Founded in 1908 by Peter Mackie in the same site of Lagavulin Distillery
Location: Lagavulin Bay, Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Argyll (Scotland)

Teith Mill, Deanston Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Teith Mill, Blended Scotch Whisky

By: Deanston Distillers Ltd. (Perthshire, Scotland) - For: Marks and Spencer plc. (London, England)

Ye Olde Mill "Fine Old", Blended Scotch Whisky
By: W. B. Reid & Co. Ltd. (Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.)

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.

The mills of the ancient Hebrews probably differed but little from those at present in use in the East. These consist of two circular stones, each about eighteen inches or two feet in diameter, the lower of which is fixed, and has its upper surface slightly convex, fitting into a corresponding concavity in the upper stone. In the latter is a hole thorough which the grain passes, immediately above a pivot or shaft which rises from the centre of the lower stone, and about which the upper stone is turned by means of an upright handle fixed near the edge. It is worked by women, sometimes singly and sometimes two together, who are usually seated on the bare ground. (Isaiah 47:1,2) "facing each other; both have hold of the handle by which the upper is turned round on the 'nether' millstone. The one whose right hand is disengaged throws in the grain as occasion requires through the hole in the upper stone. It is not correct to say that one pushes it half round and then the other seizes the handle. This would be slow work, and would give a spasmodic motion to the stone. Both retain their hold, and pull to or push from, as men do with the whip or cross-cut saw. The proverb of our Saviour, (Matthew 24:41) is true to life, for women only grind. I cannot recall an instance in which men were at the mill."-Thomson, "The Land and the Book," c.34. So essential were millstones for daily domestic use that they were forbidden to be taken in pledge. (24:6) There were also larger mills that could only be turned by cattle or asses. Allusion to one of these is made in (Matthew 18:6) With the movable upper millstone of the hand-mill the woman of Thebez broke Abimelech's skull. (Judges 9:53)