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aterials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

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.

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. High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, o…

The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.

The act or process of minimizing. Bentham.

Discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process.

A process, invented by P. Ostberg, for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminium is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal…

The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

siatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.

ck, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.

The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.

The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.

The act or process of converting into money, or of adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver.

The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth. Obstinacy in money-making. Milman.

A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.

One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; -- used of a mountain range. Dana.

A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.

A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters.

The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest. Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms. Milton.