Hypertext Webster Gateway: "milling"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mill \Mill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Milled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Milling}.] [See {Mill}, n., and cf. {Muller}.]
1. To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a
mill; to grind; to comminute.

2. To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a
machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by
means of a rotary cutter.

3. 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; also, to stamp in a coining press;
to coin.

4. To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.

5. To beat with the fists. [Cant] --Thackeray.

6. To roll into bars, as steel.

{To mill chocolate}, to make it frothy, as by churning.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Milling \Mill"ing\, n.
The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill;
the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or
intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing
surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See {Mill}.

{High milling}, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by
a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial
crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the
product.

{Low milling}, milling in which the reduction is effected in
a single crushing or grinding.

{Milling cutter}, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for
dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes.

{Milling machine}, a machine tool for dressing surfaces by
rotary cutters.

{Milling tool}, a roller with indented edge or surface, for
producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure,
as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

milling
adj : moving about or around; "the milling crowd" [syn: {shuffling}]
n : corrugated edge of a coin


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