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.

Million
(Mil"lion) n. [F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See Mile.]

1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, — written 1,000,000. See the Note under Hundred.

2. A very great number; an indefinitely large number.

Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know.
Locke.

3. The mass of common people; — with the article the.

For the play, I remember, pleased not the million.
Shak.

Millionaire
(Mil`lion*aire") n. [F. millionnaire.] One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire.]

Millionairess
(Mil`lion*air"ess), n. A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [Humorous] Holmes.

Millionary
(Mil"lion*a*ry) a. Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits. Pinkerton.

Millioned
(Mil"lioned) a. Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.] Shak.

Millionnaire
(||Mil`lion`naire") n. [F.] Millionaire.

Millionth
(Mil"lionth) a. Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

Millionth
(Mil"lionth), n. The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.

Milliped
(Mil"li*ped) n. (Zoöl.) The same Milleped.

Millistere
(Mil"li*stere) n. [F. millistère, from milli- milli- + stère.] A liter, or cubic decimeter.

Milliweber
(Mil`li*we"ber) n. [Milli- + weber.] (Physics) The thousandth part of one weber.

Millrea
(Mill"rea` Mill"ree`), Millreis
(Mill"reis`) (-res`), n. See Milreis.

Millrind
(Mill"rind` Mill"rynd`) (- rind`), n. [Mill + rynd.] (Her.) A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

Mill-sixpence
(Mill"-sixpence) n. A milled sixpence; — the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled

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.


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