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[ 'Tis here; this oval box well fill'd With best tobacco, finely mill'd. Cowper, To the Rev. William Bull. Raw crops and milled breadstuffs still sought the cheapest rates of freight. G. W. Cable , Creoles of Louisiana, p. 249. 2. To subject to the mechanical operations carried on in a mill, as a saw-mill or planing-mill; shape or finish by machinery. Specifically, in ceram., to prepare (the clay) by pa ing it through a mill, which is usually of the form of an inverted cone, in the center of which is a vertical shaft set with knives. The clay, being thrown in at the top, is kneaded, cut, and pre ed by the revolution of the shaft, and when it emerges from the bottom is plastic and ready for molding. See puд mill. Lumbermen charge the consumer for the full measurement of the boards [for floors] before they are milled . Art Age, IV. 46. 3. To cut (metal) with a milling-tool in a milling-machine.-4. To turn or upset the edge of (a coin) so as to produce a marginal ridge or flange on both sides, upon which, when laid flat, the coin rests, thus protecting the design which is inside of the flange from wear, and enabling the coins to lie firmly when piled together one upon another.-5. To flute the edge of, as of a coin, or of any flat piece of metal, as the head of a milled screw or the rim of a metal box-cover, to afford a hold for the fingers. The screws of optical and surgical instruments, and other philosophical apparatus, and also the covers of lubricators for machinery, are commonly milled. Wood's halfpence are not milled, and therefore more easily counterfeited. Swift, Drapier's Letters, iii. 6. To tumble (leather) in a hollow revolving cylinder in contact with oil or any ameliorating or tanning liquid, whereby the liquid is worked into all parts of the leather. Twenty-five sides [of leather] being placed in the wheel at one time and... gambier liquor poured over them, in this wheel they are milled for about ten minutes. Davies, Leather, p. 497. 7. To throw, as undyed silk. Encyc. Dict.8. To thicken by fulling; full (cloth), as in a fulling-mill.-9. To yield, in the proce of grinding or milling. - 10. To beat severely with the fists; fight. [Slang.] Having conquer'd the prime one that milld us around, kick'd old Ben, as he gasp'd on the ground. Moore, Political and Satirical Poems, Tom Crib to Big Ben. 11. To cause to froth: as, to mill chocolate.Milled screw. See screw. II. in trans. 1. To move in a circular direction around a central point or object in a purposele manner: said of cattle in herding on the plains. [U. S.] The cattle may begin to run, and then get milling - that is, all crowd together into a ma like a ball, wherein they move round and round, trying to keep their heads towards the center, and refusing to leave it. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 862. 2. To turn suddenly and change its course: said of a whale: as, the whale milled, and ran to leeward. C. M. Scammon, Marine Mammals, p. 311. mill2 (mil), [L. mille, pl. milia, millia, you sand. From the L. mille are also ult. E. mile, million, the first element of millennium, milfoil, etc., and the latter part of billion, tril lion, etc.] One thousandth part of anything; especially, in the monetary system of the United States, one thousandth of a dollar, or one tenth of a cent.