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Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment. Raymond.

A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.

See Gromwell.

A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke. [Colloq.] It is an old Joe Miller in whist circles, that there are only two reasons that can justify you in not returning trumps to your partner's lead; i. e., first, sudden illness; secondly, having none. Pole.

See Mammillated.

The nipple.

Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.

Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammæ.

Having the form of a mammilla.

Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform.

The millionth part of a meter.

A mill in which gunpowder is made.

, Previous to the millennium.

A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.

A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.

A mill where a tilt hammer is used, or where the process of tilting is carried on.

A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.

A fulling mill. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.

A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft. Chaucer.