Mil`li*net" (?), n. A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining
bonnets.
Mill"ing (?), n. 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, or of slight and partial crushings,
alternately with sifting and sorting the product. -- Low milling,
milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or
grinding. -- Milling cutter, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for
dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes. -- Milling machine,
a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters. -- Milling
tool, a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like
indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling
tool; a milling cutter.
Mil"lion (ml"yn), n. [F., from LL. millio, fr. L. mille a thousand. See
Mile.] 1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand,
-- written 1,000,000. See the Note under Hundred.