Barker's mill () A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis. |
Bran (n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting |
Bran (n.) The European carrion crow. |
Bran-new (a.) See Brand-new. |
Craze-mill (n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill |
Crazing-mill (n.) A mill for grinding tin ore. |
Fine (superl.) Finished |
Fine (superl.) Aiming at show or effect |
Fine (superl.) Nice |
Fine (superl.) Not coarse, gross, or heavy |
Fine (superl.) Not gross |
Fine (superl.) Not coarse |
Fine (superl.) Not thick or heavy |
Fine (superl.) Thin |
Fine (superl.) Made of fine materials |
Fine (superl.) Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition |
Fine (superl.) (Used ironically.) |
Fine (a.) To make fine |
Fine (a.) To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. |
Fine (a.) To change by fine gradations |
Fine (n.) End |
Fine (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute |
Fine (n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. |
Fine (n.) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease. |
Fine (n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law |
Fine (v. i.) To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b). |
Fine (v. t.) To finish |
Flour (n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain |
Flour (v. t.) To grind and bolt |
Flour (v. t.) To sprinkle with flour. |
Mill (n.) A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar. |
Mill (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces |
Mill (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 |
Mill (n.) A machine for grinding and polishing |
Mill (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 |
Mill (n.) A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on |
Mill (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. |
Mill (n.) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. |
Mill (n.) A passage underground through which ore is shot. |
Mill (n.) A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling. |
Mill (n.) A pugilistic. |
Mill (n.) To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill |
Mill (n.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine |
Mill (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 |
Mill (n.) To pass through a fulling mill |
Mill (n.) To beat with the fists. |
Mill (n.) To roll into bars, as steel. |
Mill (v. i.) To swim under water |
Mill-cake (n.) The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation. |
Mill-sixpence (n.) A milled sixpence |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a method of examining in minute detail, he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes |
grind mill pulverization pulverisation | the act of grinding to a powder or dust |
gizzard ventriculus gastric mill | thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food |
flour beetle flour weevil | an insect that infests flour and stored grains |
Mediterranean flour moth Anagasta kuehniella | small moth whose larvae damage stored grain and flour |
art fine art | the products of human creativity, works of art collectively, an art exhibition, a fine collection of art |
cider mill | mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider |
coffee mill coffee grinder | a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans |
cotton mill | a textile mill for making cotton textiles |
factory mill manufacturing plant manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a comb with teeth set close together |
flour bin | a bin for holding flour |
flour mill | a mill for grinding grain into flour |
mill grinder milling machinery | machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing |
millwheel mill wheel | water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill |
paper mill | a mill where paper is manufactured |
pepper mill pepper grinder | a mill for grinding pepper |
public house pub saloon pothouse gin mill taphouse | tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms, often provides light meals |
quartz battery quartz mill | a stamp mill for stamping quartz |
rolling mill | steel mill where metal is rolled into sheets and bars |
stamp mill stamping mill | a mill in which ore is crushed with stamps |
steel mill steelworks steel plant steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
textile mill | a factory for making textiles |
water mill | a mill powered by a water wheel |
fine arts beaux arts | the study and creation of visual works of art |
small print fine print | material printed in small type, he needed his glasses in order to read the fine print |
Master of Fine Arts MFA | a master's degree in fine arts |
Doctor of Fine Arts | an honorary degree in fine arts |
fine print small print | the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type, don't sign a contract without reading the fine print |
pea flour | meal made from dried peas |
bran | food prepared from the husks of cereal grains |
flour | fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain |
plain flour | flour that does not contain a raising agent |
wheat flour | flour prepared from wheat |
whole wheat flour graham flour graham whole meal flour | flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran, (`whole meal flour' is British usage) |
soybean meal soybean flour soy flour | meal made from soybeans |
selfising flour selfaising flour | a commercially prepared mixture of flour and salt and a leavening agent |
bran muffin | muffin containing bran |
raisin bran | bran flakes with raisins |
bran flake | wheat flake including the bran |
mill agent | the responsible official at a mill that is under absentee ownership |
mill-girl | a girl who works in a mill |
mill-hand factory worker | a workman in a mill or factory |
Mill John Mill John Stuart Mill | English philosopher and economist remembered for his interpretations of empiricism and utilitarianism (-) |
Mill James Mill | Scottish philosopher who expounded Bentham's utilitarianism, father of John Stuart Mill (-) |
fine spray | precipitation in very small drops |
fine structure | the presence of groups of closely spaced spectrum lines observed in the atomic spectrum of certain elements, the fine structure results from slightly different energy levels |
leather flower vase-fine vase vine Clematis viorna | scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
soft corn flour corn squaw corn Zea mays amylacea | corn having kernels almost entirely of soft starch |
bell heather heather bell fine-leaved heath Erica cinerea | common low European shrub with purpleed flowers |