Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive usually of a group of people English) To move or circulate in a confused or disorderly manner within a limited are
WordNet
v. be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill around]
move about in a confused manner [syn: mill, mill around]
Usage examples of "mill about".
Wearily Mason pulls on Oil-cloths, tugs his Service-Grade Beaver over his Nob, and emerges to mill about as perplex'd as the rest, hoping no one will look to him for Leadership.
The only towboats and barges that come upriver out of Sungari turn northwest up Bayou Teche and stop at a landing beside an old abandoned sugar mill about ten miles from Morgan City.
It gave them another excuse to be troublesome, and they again whipped up mobs of the lower-class folk to march along the avenues, to mill about in the Place de la Concorde and eventually to surround the Hô.
None of them still stood, but the castle servants had loosed the war-horses, milk cows, and goats to mill about the courtyards, making charging or even staying together impossible.
Spent the next year studying the black arts—where he found all his lore is a good puzzle for the Temple, mind you—letting his business go, I was told—and then, last night, took himself off to an abandoned mill about seven miles from Valenda, and tried to call up a demon.
Spent the next year studying the black artswhere he found all his lore is a good puzzle for the Temple, mind youletting his business go, I was toldand then, last night, took himself off to an abandoned mill about seven miles from Valenda, and tried to call up a demon.
As spring approached and the snows melted, disclosing a short, rich grass refreshed by moisture, the herd began to mill about as if it wished to move to other ground, and one morning as Rufous was grazing in the soft land between the twin pillars, with the warm sun of spring on his back, one of the cows started nudging her way among the other cows and butting the older bulls.
Yet suddenly they stopped, seeming to mill about in fear or confusion, and we wondered at the cause.
Everyone else might be willing to mill about, passively waiting for their aircars to be brought down, but Lentrall felt the need to be active.