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mill
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Word definitions for mill in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mill \Mill\, v. i. (Zo["o]l.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures. 2. To undergo hulling, as maize. 3. To move in a circle, as cattle upon a plain; to move around aimlessly; -- usually used with around. The deer and the pig and the nilghar ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one-tenth cent," 1786, an original U.S. currency unit but now used only for tax calculation purposes, shortening of Latin millesimum "one-thousandth," from mille "a thousand" (see million ). Formed on the analogy of cent , which is short for Latin centesimus ...
Usage examples of mill.
Kicking Acorn to a gallop, she jumped a hedge and raced toward the mill.
All I get is cfiticism and admonitions to put my girls to wojk in the mill.
Their aircraft, milling about north of Chiang Mai, stood out clearly on radar, and his scouts had reported Thai airmobile forces gathering several kilometers to the southeast.
There should be a hitching post, Alan thought, a stagecoach rattling by, a dozen extras milling around.
Others milled happily around Alec, slapping him with their plumed tails and sniffing hopefully at the swans hanging at his saddlebow.
Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.
At the first arpeggiated tracings of A minor, the rats begin milling, rumoring among themselves.
The atheling was relegated to the milling crowd on the floor, where he was almost impossible to defend properly.
When the autobahn went into an overpass he could look down to the right and see it stretching away into the December night, thousands of hectares of lights and mills, aglow from a thousand furnaces churning out the wealth of the economic miracle.
Bengalis and Highlanders hunted through the ruins, their war cries shrill as they bayoneted and shot the garrison, while behind them, before the smoke of the carcasses had even begun to fade or the fighting in the mill die down, the engineers were constructing a stouter bridge across which they could haul their siege guns so they could turn the old mill into a breaching battery.
For the next five years you will receive a reasonable monthly allowance either from these same bank trustees or from one Miss Lillian Bede who, upon my death, has been offered the management of Mill House and who will, at the end of five years, inherit the estate should it demonstrably profit under her management.
Miss Bede loses this Mill House, why would Avery have to assume responsibility for her?
Miss Bede had, in her usual subtle way, made known her intention of winning Mill House.
Christina, a dozen plans milling around inside her head, assured him, with no truth at all, that she would and went to pack up her things, joined presently by Mevrouw Beek, quite tearful at parting with her.
How would the refineries, the factories, the mills, the farms, all the rest of it, work without biped labour?