milled, polished
(adjective) (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed; “polished rice”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
milled (not comparable)
Ground by a mill.
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milled
simple past tense and past participle of mill
Source: Wiktionary
Milled, a.
Definition: Having been subjected to some process of milling. Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill.
– Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.
Mill, n. Etym: [L. mille a thousand. Cf. Mile.]
Definition: A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
Mill, n. Etym: [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. mühle, OHG. muli, mulin, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. Meal flour, and cf. Moline.]
1. A machine for grinding or commuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
6. (Die Sinking)
Definition: A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
9. A pugilistic. [Cant] R. D. Blackmore. Edge mill, Flint mill, etc. See under Edge, Flint, etc.
– Mill bar (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.
– Mill cinder, slag from a puddling furnace.
– Mill head, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill.
– Mill pick, a pick for dressing millstones.
– Mill pond, a pond that supplies the water for a mill.
– Mill race, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel.
– Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows.
– Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth.
– Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill.
– Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers.
– Stamp mill (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps.
– To go through the mill, to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state.
Mill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Milled; p. pr. & vb. n. Milling.] Etym: [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.
Mill, v. i. (Zoöl.)
Definition: To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
