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. |
Cotton (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long |
Cotton (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. |
Cotton (n.) Cloth made of cotton. |
Cotton (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. |
Cotton (v. i.) To go on prosperously |
Cotton (v. i.) To unite |
Cotton (v. i.) To take a liking to |
Craze-mill (n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill |
Crazing-mill (n.) A mill for grinding tin ore. |
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 |
Tilt-mill (n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on. |
Walk-mill (n.) A fulling mill. |
Water mill () A mill whose machinery is moved by water |
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 |
cotton stainer | a true bug: bug that damages and stains the lint of developing cotton |
cotton strain | feeds primarily on cotton |
corn earworm cotton bollworm tomato fruitworm tobacco budworm vetchworm Heliothis zia | larva of a noctuid moth, highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops |
cotton mouse Peromyscus gossypinus | large dark mouse of southeastern United States |
cotton rat Sigmodon hispidus | destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America |
cider mill | mill that extracts juice from apples to make apple cider |
coffee mill coffee grinder | a mill that grinds roasted coffee beans |
cotton | fabric woven from cotton fibers |
cotton | thread made of cotton fibers |
cotton flannel Canton flannel | a stout cotton fabric with nap on only one side |
cotton gin gin | a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers |
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 |
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 |
cotton candy spun sugar candyfloss | a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature |
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 (-) |
groundsel tree groundsel bush consumption weed cotton-seed tree Baccharis halimifolia | a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies, fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts |
cotton rose cudweed filago | any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads |
cotton thistle woolly thistle Scotch thistle Onopordum acanthium Onopordon acanthium | biennial Eurasian white hairy thistle having pale purple flowers, naturalized in North America |
lavender cotton Santolina chamaecyparissus | branching aromatic Mediterranean shrub with woolly stems and leaves and yellow flowers |
cotton grass cotton rush | any sedge of the genus Eriophorum, north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes |
common cotton grass Eriophorum angustifolium | having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes |
cotton cotton plant | erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers |
tree cotton Gossypium arboreum | East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms |
sea island cotton tree cotton Gossypium barbadense | small bushy tree grown on islands of the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of the southern United States, yields cotton with unusually long silky fibers |
Levant cotton Gossypium herbaceum | Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short greyish lint removed with difficulty, considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons |
upland cotton Gossypium hirsutum | native tropical American plant now cultivated in the United States yielding short-staple cotton |
Peruvian cotton Gossypium peruvianum | cotton with long rough hairy fibers |
Egyptian cotton | fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt, believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton |
wild cotton Arizona wild cotton Gossypium thurberi | shrub of southern Arizona and Mexico |
cotton rose Confederate rose Confederate rose mallow Hibiscus mutabilis | Chinese shrub or small tree having white or pink flowers becoming deep red at night, widely cultivated, naturalized in southeastern United States |
New Zealand cotton | a fiber from the bast of New Zealand ribbon trees that resembles cotton fiber |
cotton ball | a fungus disease of cranberries |