milky quartz

[QUARTZ.] milky-way, s. [GALAXY.] mill (1), s . [Lat. mille a you sand.] A money of account in the United States, being the thousandth part of a dollar, or tenth part of a cent, and therefore equal to about of an English farthing. mill (2), *melle, *miln, *mulle, *mulne, *myln, *mylne, s. [A. S. myln, mylen , from Lat. molina = a mill, from mola a mill, from molo =to grind; Icel. mylna =a mill; Wel. mel in ; Fr. moulin ; Dut. molen .] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) A machine for grinding grain, fruit, or other substances, and reducing them to a fine powder. "The berries crackle, and the mill turns round." Pope : Rape of the Lock , iii. 106. (2) A lapidary's grinding-wheel, known as rough. ing- mill , cloth- mill , . (3) A machine, or complication of engines or paring it for immediate use or for employment in a machinery, for working up raw material, and pre further stage of manufacture; as, a cotton- mill , a spinning- mill , a saw- mill , an oil- mill , . (4) The buildings or factory containing such machinery. (5) A stamping-pre for coin. "His new invention for coining gold and silver with the mill and pre ." -Walpole : Anecdotes of Painting , vol. ii., ch. iii. (6) A treadmill (q. v.). 2. Fig.: A pugilistic encounter; a prize-fight. ( Slang .) "He had treated her ill, Because she refused to go down to a mill ." Hood: Mi Kilmansegg. II. Die - sinking : The hardened steel roller having the design in cameo, and used for impre ing in intaglio a plate, as in the bank-note system of engraving; or a copper cylinder, as in the proce of engraving cylinders for calico-priating. A low meadow or field in the vicinity of a mill; a watery place about a milldam. mill-hopper, s. The hopper of a mill. [Hop PER.]