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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mill  \Mill\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Milled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Milling}.]  [See  {Mill},  n.,  and  cf  {Muller}.] 
  1.  To  reduce  to  fine  particles,  or  to  small  pieces,  in  a 
  mill;  to  grind;  to  comminute. 
 
  2.  To  shape,  finish,  or  transform  by  passing  through  a 
  machine;  specifically,  to  shape  or  dress,  as  metal,  by 
  means  of  a  rotary  cutter. 
 
  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. 
 
  4.  To  pass  through  a  fulling  mill;  to  full,  as  cloth. 
 
  5.  To  beat  with  the  fists.  [Cant]  --Thackeray. 
 
  6.  To  roll  into  bars,  as  steel. 
 
  {To  mill  chocolate},  to  make  it  frothy,  as  by  churning. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Milling  \Mill"ing\,  n. 
  The  act  or  employment  of  grinding  or  passing  through  a  mill; 
  the  process  of  fulling;  the  process  of  making  a  raised  or 
  intented  edge  upon  coin,  etc.;  the  process  of  dressing 
  surfaces  of  various  shapes  with  rotary  cutters.  See  {Mill}. 
 
  {High  milling},  milling  in  which  grain  is  reduced  to  flour  by 
  a  succession  of  crackings,  or  of  slight  and  partial 
  crushings,  alternately  with  sifting  and  sorting  the 
  product. 
 
  {Low  milling},  milling  in  which  the  reduction  is  effected  in 
  a  single  crushing  or  grinding. 
 
  {Milling  cutter},  a  fluted,  sharp-edged  rotary  cutter  for 
  dressing  surfaces,  as  of  metal,  of  various  shapes. 
 
  {Milling  machine},  a  machine  tool  for  dressing  surfaces  by 
  rotary  cutters. 
 
  {Milling  tool},  a  roller  with  indented  edge  or  surface,  for 
  producing  like  indentations  in  metal  by  rolling  pressure, 
  as  in  turning;  a  knurling  tool;  a  milling  cutter. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  milling 
  adj  :  moving  about  or  around  "the  milling  crowd"  [syn:  {shuffling}] 
  n  :  the  corrugated  edge  of  a  coin 




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