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To cut, as a saw; as, the saw or mill saws fast.

To brush the hairs of fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. Knight.

rush along; to traverse or search thoroughly; as, to scour the coast. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain. Pope. Scouring barrel, a tumbling barrel. See under Tumbling. -- Scouring cinder (Metal.), a basic slag, which attacks the lining of a shaft furnace. Raymond. -- Scouring rush. (Bot.) See Dutch rush, unde…

A hydroid coral of the genus Millepora, especially M. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.

Soap prepared for use in milling cloth.

the coin will rise to the extent of the seigniorage above the value of the bullion. J. S. Mill.

Half deisticsl; bordering on deism. S. Miller.

The fine, hard parts of wheat, rounded by the attrition of the millstones, -- used in cookery.

Old age. [R.] "Senectitude, weary of its toils." H. Miller.

e. 1 Kings xiv. 4. On these three objects his heart was set. Macaulay. Make my heart as a millstone, set my face as a flint. Tennyson.

r expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

mer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron. -- Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.

. Chaucer The natural world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. Woodward.

An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.

The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. The first remove above bran is shorts. Halliwell.

Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.

The husks and other refuse of rice mills, used to adulterate oil cake, or linseed cake.

Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting. "Sighing millions." Cowper. -- Sigh"ing*ly, adv.

When or that. [Obs.] Do you remember since we lay all night in the windmill in St. George's field Shak.

, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction. Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. Selden. Sits the wind in that quarter Sir W. Scott.