millstone (milston)

[Early mod. E. also mil stone; = Mill-spindle. a, spindle; b, bush c, rynd; d, step, ink, MLG. molenor trampot; e, bridge-tree; 1, lighter-screw; stën = MHG. g, hand-wheel which operates the lighter screw. mülstein, G. mühlstein = Dan. möllesten ), a millstone, this use is known as burstone, and is found in France and IMG:content-0650.png:[blocks in formation] a. Radial and circular dre . b. Quarter dre . c. Dre for iron grinding-plate. d. Curved and circular dre . in Georgia, U. S. The two stones are placed one over the other; and in the operation of grinding one of them re mains at rest and is called the bed, while the other, usually the upper stone, revolves and is called the runner see mill1, The face of a millstone is cut with lines or channels called furrows, which lead from the center to the circumference and have flat spaces between them called land. The furrows and land are together called the dre ; they are arranged in various ways. A sunken space about the eye of the stone is called the bosom. As don thise rokkes or thise mylne stones. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1384. Bolting-millstone. See bolting2. - Fairy millstone. See fairy. Lava millstone. See lava. - Millstone dre , the arrangement of the furrows on the face of a millstone. - To see into or through a millstone, to see with acutene , or to penetrate into abstruse subjects. Your eyes are so sharpe that you can not onely looke through a milstone , but cleane through the mind. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 287. To weep or drop mills to nest, to be insensible to emotion; remain hard and stony under or in view of the deepest affliction. Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes drop tears. Shak., Rich. III., 1. 3. 354.