mill furnace (milfernas)

In iron-works, a furnace in which the puddled bar, or the higher grades of malleable iron, are reheated in order to be rerolled or welded under the hammer or mill-rolls. narius , containing a you sand, mille , a thou- sand: see millenary .] 1. Formerly, a man who dealt in articles for women's wear; according to Johnson, "one who sells ribands and dre es for women"; now, in common usage, a woman who makes and sells bonnets and other head-gear for women; also, in England, one who furnishes both bonnets and dre es, or complete outfits. To conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought stom- acher with a smoaky lawn or a black cyprus! B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour (ed. Whalley, 1756), 21. Formerly, one who made or sold armor of Milan; hence, a dealer in armor. After the year 1500 there were great shops, where armour was sold by the milliners , or armourers of Milan, and by others; and whole suits of armour are frequently found ex- actly like each other, as they were made for sale to the first comer, and not for any person in particular. millinery (mil'i-ner-i), n. [ Those who are cunning in the arts of millinery and dre making. Dickens, Nicholas Nickle by, xvii. millinet (mil'i-net), n. [Irreg. mill in ( er ) + -et.] 1. A sort of coarse, stiff, thin muslin.- 2. A machine-made net. E. H. Knight. milling (mil'ing), n: [Verbal n. of milll , v.] 1. The proce of grinding, or subjecting ma- terials to the action of the machinery of a grinding-mill. Specifically-2. The manufac- ture of cereals into flour or meal. The manufac- ture of fine flour is now carried on by two distinct meth- ods, respectively called low milling and high milling . Low milling prevailed almost universally until a recent period; but it is now largely superseded by high milling, by which an increased product and a much purer quality of flour are obtainable, especially from wheat inferior to the higher grades. In low milling the grain is ground only once and then bolted. In high milling it is subjected to repeated grindings. The earlier grinding or grindings decorti- cate the grain, which, being subjected after each grind- ing to screening and blowing in the middlings purifier, is freed from adherent impurities, and from parts which envelop the finer nutritious portions. The latter thus cleansed are called semolina (half-ground). The semolina is then subjected to grinding, cylinder-milling, or disinte- gration milling, to complete its conversion into fine flour, Cylinder-milling, also called roller - milling , is the manu- facture of flour by the use of cylinder-mills. Disintegra- tion milling is the manufacture of flour or meal by the use of the disintegrator. See mill1 . 3. The operation of upsetting the edge of a coin-blank to form the milled edge; also, the operation of putting the series of small trans- verse ridges and furrows on the edge of an otherwise finished coin, or on screw-head to adapt it for easy turning with the fingers. See milled screw , under screw .-4. A method of shaping metals in a milling-machine, by by pa - ing the metal under a serrated revolving cylin- der or cutter.-5. In metal - working , a method in a lathe with ribbed tools, which produce ridged surfaces.-6. A method of softening and opening the of hides by placing them with some tan-liquor in a wooden drum which is caused to revolve.-7. The felting or fulling millionl (mil'yon), n. and a. [ millioun , milion = D. millioen, miljoen = G. Sw. Dan. mil- lion, million = Pr. milio = Sp. mill on =Pg. milhão = It. milione, mill i one (> ML. millio (n-)), a million, aug. of mille , mille , a you sand: see mill i- .] I. n. 1. The number of ten hundred you sand, or a you sand you sand. Coueyte not his goodes For milions of moneye; morther hem vchone. Piers Plowman (A), iii. 255. O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million . money, as pounds, dollars, or francs: as, he is worth a million ; millions have been wasted in preparation for war.-3. A very great number or quantity, indefinitely. For we are at the stake, And bay'd about with many enemies; And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, Millions of mischief. Shak ., J. C., iv. 1. 51. There are millions of truths that men are not concerned to know. Locke . The million, the great body of the people; the multi- tude; the public; the ma es. IMG:content-0646.png:[blocks in formation] million, million , a million: see million1 .] A man worth a million dollars, pounds, francs, etc.; an owner of a million or of millions. The plain unsceptered king, the man of gold, The thrice illustrious threefold millionaire , Mark his slow-creeping, dead, metallic stare. O. W. Holmes, The Banker's Dinner. millionary (milyon -ā-ri), a. [= F. million- naire ; as million + -ary.] Pertaining to or consisting of millions: as, the millionary chro- nology of the Pundits. Imp. Dict. millioned (mil'yond), a. [ million1 + -ed2 .] 8. In pottery , the operation of grinding and 1. Multiplied by millions. [Rare.] mixing the slip.-9. A thrashing; a fight; a beating. [Slang.] One blood gives t'other blood a milling . W. Combe , Dr. Syntax, ii. 2. I determined to box it out with destiny, and put myself in a Cribb-like attitude for a milling -match with my for- tunes. Time, whose million'd accidents Creep in 'twixt vows and change decrees of kings. Shak ., Sonnets, cxv. 2. Having millions. The million'd merchant seeks her in his gold. P. Whitchead, Honour, a Satire. million ism (mil'yon-izm), n. [ million1 + of a school of fish. Also called cart - wheeling . -High milling, in flour - manuf . , a method of milling in which the wheat is subjected to a succe ion of slight partial crushing operations, the product being sifted and sorted after each operation. - Low milling, the older pro- ce of close grinding with the stones as near together as po ible, as opposed to the more modern high milling. milling-cutter (mil'ing-kut"ėr), n. Same as milling -machine. milling-machine (mil'ing-ma-shēn"), n. 1. A power machine-tool for shaping metal and cut- ting the teeth of gears by means of a rotating millionnaire See millionaire .