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/mil/, n.1. a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.2. a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour and other cereal products.3. a machine for grinding, crushing, or pulverizing any solid substance: a coffee mill.4. any of various machines that modify the shape or size of a workpiece by rotating tools or the work: rolling mill.5. any of various other apparatuses for shaping materials or performing other mechanical operations.6. a business or institution that dispenses products or services in an impersonal or mechanical manner, as if produced in a factory: a divorce mill; a diploma mill.7. Mach. a cutter on a milling machine.8. a steel roller for receiving and transferring an impressed design, as to a calico-printing cylinder or a banknote-printing plate.9. Mining. a place or set of machinery for crushing or concentrating ore.10. Slang. a boxing match or fistfight.11. through the mill, Informal. undergoing or having undergone severe difficulties, trials, etc., esp. with an effect on one's health, personality, or character: He's really been through the mill since his wife's death.v.t.12. to grind, work, treat, or shape in or with a mill.13. Coining.a. to make a raised edge on (a coin or the like).b. to make narrow, radial grooves on the raised edge of (a coin or the like).14. to beat or stir, as to a froth: to mill chocolate.15. Slang. to beat or strike; fight; overcome.v.i.16. to move around aimlessly, slowly, or confusedly, as a herd of cattle (often fol. by about or around).17. Slang. to fight or box.[bef. 950; ME milne, mille (n.), OE myl(e)n < LL molina, n. use of fem. of molinus of a mill, equiv. to L mol(a) mill + -inus -INE1]Syn. 16. crowd, wander, roam, teem.mill2/mil/, n.a unit of monetary value equal to 0.001 of a U.S. dollar; one tenth of a cent: used at various times and places in the U.S. as a money of account, esp. in certain tax rates.[1785-95, Amer.; short for L millesimus thousandth; see MIL]
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