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. |
Craze-mill (n.) Alt. of Crazing-mill |
Crazing-mill (n.) A mill for grinding tin ore. |
Crow-silk (n.) A filamentous fresh-water alga (Conferva rivularis of Linnaeus, Rhizoclonium rivulare of Kutzing). |
Floxed silk () See Floss silk, under Floss. |
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 |
Silk (n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori. |
Silk (n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material. |
Silk (n.) That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize. |
Tilt-mill (n.) A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on. |
Tussah silk () A silk cloth made from the cocoons of a caterpillar other than the common silkworm, much used in Bengal and China. |
Tussah silk () The silk fiber itself. |
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 |
silk gland serictery sericterium | silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders |
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 |
dress hat high hat opera hat silk hat stovepipe top hat topper beaver | a man's hat with a tall crown, usually covered with silk or with beaver fur |
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 |
moire watered-silk | silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern |
nylons nylon stocking rayons rayon stocking silk stocking | women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) |
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 |
silk | a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae |
silkscreen silk screen print serigraph | a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil |
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 |
Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (, miles), followed by Marco Polo in the th century to reach Cathay |
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 (-) |
silk tree Albizia julibrissin Albizzia julibrissin | attractive domed or flat-topped Asiatic tree having bipinnate leaves and flowers with long silky stamens |
mountain rice silkgrass silk grass Indian millet Oryzopsis hymenoides | valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico |
cornsilk corn silk | each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn |
Jamaican cherry calabur tree calabura silk wood silkwood Muntingia calabura | a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit, bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves |
silk oak | any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering |
ramie ramee Chinese silk plant China grass Boehmeria nivea | tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves, cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax |
silk vine Periploca graeca | deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill-scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits, cultivated for its dark shining foliage, southeastern Europe to Asia Minor |
kapok silk cotton vegetable silk | a plant fiber from the kapok tree, used for stuffing and insulation |
red silk cotton | a plant fiber from the red silkotton tree of eastern India, inferior to kapok |
silk | animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders |
mill | grind with a mill, mill grain |
mill | roll out (metal) with a rolling machine |
mill | produce a ridge around the edge of, mill a coin |
mill mill about mill around | move about in a confused manner |
d loiter lounge footle lollygag loaf lallygag hang around mess about tarry linger lurk mill about mill around a | be about, The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square, Who is this man that is hanging around the department? |
silk-lined | having a silk lining |
run-of-the-mill run-of-the-mine mine run unexceptional | not special in any way, run-of-the-mill boxing, your run-of-the-mine college graduate, a unexceptional an incident as can be found in a lawyer's career |