Noun : a coffee mill. ,rolling mill. ,a divorce mill; a diploma mill. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to mill chocolate. From Dictionary.com.
I had a blast reading it and it raised some points that will remain milling around in the noggin awhile. From Wordnik.com. [Accept the invite « Motivated Grammar] Reference
The biggest difficultly of course is in milling the lower receiver to accept a fifth FCG component — the auto sear. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » President Calderon’s claim about “assault weapons”] Reference
Where excavation can be replaced by milling, that is the way (shaving off the top to allow for new surfacing). From Wordnik.com. [London Free Press] Reference
Are they just kind of milling around waiting for word?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2009] Reference
There are a lot of other people kind of milling around outside. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 16, 2007] Reference
You see some people running but they are also just a number of people kind of milling about. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 14, 2005] Reference
And like a lot of the family members who are kind of milling around out here, very nervous, very upset. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2001] Reference
And thousands of people were just kind of milling around the streets hoping the subway started working again. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2007] Reference
But that then creates a vacancy that has to be filled by somebody, because we don't have a lot of GIs kind of milling around. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2009] Reference
People just kind of milling around here, coming to the front door, trying to get a glimpse of what the storm looks like outside. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008] Reference
This famous "milling" came off on the Heath at the lower end of the cricket ground somewhere near the spot selected for the Jubilee tea in. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference
Then if they can turn the front ones back, and get them to run in a circle -- "milling," it is called -- the others will do the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's] Reference
"They left behind heavy objects, such as milling stones.". From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
In short, as a cattleman would say, I was "milling" in the midst of a wide landscape. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference
In this case, the question up for "milling" is: How do you feel about publication of income details?. From Wordnik.com. [The Local - Sweden's news in English] Reference
Yet he kept steadily at his work, "milling" the steers, as the turning process is called, until pony and rider were well-nigh exhausted. From Wordnik.com. [The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains] Reference
Blindly racing after the leaders the other cattle follow; and round they plunge until head and tail of the herd meet, and "milling" begins. From Wordnik.com. [The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama] Reference
A circle, the other animals would follow, and soon the whole bunch would be "milling," which is the most desired way to stop a stampede. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference
He also heard several boys milling around, saying, "Let's go.". From Wordnik.com. [What Happened at Duke?] Reference
At 7 o'clock, hundreds of people are milling in the town center. From Wordnik.com. [Our Buddy, The Prez] Reference
The 15,000 reporters in town felt like extras milling around a sound stage. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Card] Reference
This profile is the same used when milling oak for interior hardwood floors. From Wordnik.com. [Get the most out of your wood porch decking by using century-old tricks] Reference
I spotted Plaz and his boys milling around, talking with some other dudes they'd run into. From Wordnik.com. [Makes Me Wanna Holler] Reference
Many of the guests milling around the room, chatting over piano music, knew little or no English. From Wordnik.com. [An Expensive Evening] Reference
No more battles, but no food, no medicine, no shelter, no resistance, either: just milling chaos. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard] Reference
I urged him to make an apology to all of the angry passengers milling around the baggage carousel. From Wordnik.com. [My Trip From Hell] Reference
Accompanying them to a recent audition, I found plenty of grayhairs milling about, head shots in hand. From Wordnik.com. [TINSELTOWN DREAMS] Reference
A group of steelworkers from Pennsylvania milling around the lobby were suddenly waving tiny American flags. From Wordnik.com. [Was It Victory?] Reference
There was a marketplace to the right, nondescript buildings down the road and a few pedestrians milling about. From Wordnik.com. [A Virtual Iraq] Reference
Trackways found this year in South Korea show the marks of scores of tiny, milling brontosaurs, the size of calves. From Wordnik.com. [New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur] Reference
The company's milling division also enjoyed a brisk profit, even while the cost of the main ingredients was spiking. From Wordnik.com. [Biting Into Your Budget] Reference
Courtiers dressed in traditional Thai draped culottes are milling about in front of a sparkling Styrofoam Thai palace. From Wordnik.com. [Making A Modern Day 'King And I'] Reference
A young man walked to the center of the square and unceremoniously deposited a boombox in the middle of a milling crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Vander Ark: Students Deserve More Magic] Reference
Except that there are some differences this time, and you may have to be milling around in the capital to appreciate them. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody To Take The Fall] Reference
About 350 guests showed up for opening night, milling about amid opulent cherrywood furnishings, brass chandeliers and marble columns. From Wordnik.com. [Minister's Food For Thought] Reference
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