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milled

–verb

1.	pt. and pp. of mill¹.

–adjective

2.	(of a coin) struck by a mill or press and usually finished with transverse ribs or grooves: milled dimes and quarters.

3.	ground or hulled in a mill: milled wheat.

4.	pressed flat by rolling: milled board.

5.	Obsolete. (of metal) polished by mechanical means: a suit of milled armor.

[Origin: 1615–25; mill¹ + -ed²

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mill¹ Audio Help (mĭl) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour or meal.
2. A device or mechanism that grinds grain.
3. A machine, such as one for stamping coins, that produces something by the repetition of a simple process.
4. A steel roller bearing a raised design, used for making a die or a printing plate by pressure.
5. Any of various machines for shaping, cutting, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces.
6. A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products: a textile mill; a steel mill.
7. A building or collection of buildings that has machinery for manufacture; a factory.
A machine or device that reduces a solid or coarse substance into pulp or minute grains by crushing, grinding, or pressing: a pepper mill.
A machine that releases the juice of fruits and vegetables by pressing or grinding: a cider mill.
1. A machine, such as one for stamping coins, that produces something by the repetition of a simple process.
2. A steel roller bearing a raised design, used for making a die or a printing plate by pressure.
3. Any of various machines for shaping, cutting, polishing, or dressing metal surfaces.
4. A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products: a textile mill; a steel mill.
5. A building or collection of buildings that has machinery for manufacture; a factory.
1. A building or group of buildings equipped with machinery for processing raw materials into finished or industrial products: a textile mill; a steel mill.
2. A building or collection of buildings that has machinery for manufacture; a factory.
A process, agency, or institution that operates in a routine way or turns out products in the manner of a factory: The college was nothing more than a diploma mill.
A slow or laborious process: It took three years to get the bill through the legislative mill.

v. milled, mill·ing, mills

v. tr.

To grind, pulverize, or break down into smaller particles in a mill.
To transform or process mechanically in a mill.
To shape, polish, dress, or finish in a mill or with a milling tool.
1. To produce a ridge around the edge of (a coin).
2. To groove or flute the rim of (a coin or other metal object).
To agitate or stir until foamy.
Western U.S. To cause (cattle) to move in a circle or tightening spiral in order to stop a stampede.

v. intr.

To move around in churning confusion: "A crowd of school children milled about on the curb looking scared" (Anne Tyler).
Slang To fight with the fists; box.
To undergo milling.

[Middle English milne, mille, from Old English mylen, from Late Latin molīna, molīnum, from feminine and neuter of molīnus, of a mill, from Latin mola, millstone, from molere, to grind; see melə- in Indo-European roots.]

To mill, in Western U.S. English, means "to run cattle in a circle, sometimes deliberately in order to halt a stampede." In the Oxford English Dictionary we find this 19th-century example of the verb: "At last the cattle ran with less energy, and it was presently easy to 'mill' them into a circle and to turn them where it seemed most desirable" (Munsey's Magazine). This usage of mill comes from the resemblance of the cattle's circular motion to the action of millstones. A related intransitive sense of the verb is better known in Standard English, as shown in the Oxford English Dictionary citation of an 1888 quotation from Theodore Roosevelt: "The cattle may begin to run, and then get 'milling'-that is, all crowd together into a mass like a ball, wherein they move round and round." Originally this sense of mill also meant "circular motion"; now it means "to move around in churning confusion" with no pattern in particular.

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milled
adjective
(of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed; "polished rice"

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Milled

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.

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