| Mill 1. (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. 2. (n.) 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. 3. (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. 4. (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. 5. (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. 6. (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. 7. (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. 8. (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. 9. (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. 10. (n.) A milling cutter. 11. (n.) A pugilistic. 12. (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute. 13. (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter. 14. (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. 15. (n.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth. 16. (n.) To beat with the fists. 17. (n.) To roll into bars, as steel. 18. (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures. Thesaurus Entries 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 |