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milled, ppl. a.|mɪld|
[f. mill v.1 + -ed1.]
†1. ? Polished by some mechanical process. Obs.
1622F. Markham Bk. War i. x. 39 All these seuerall parts of Armor is rather to bee of a Russet or blacke collour then mil'd.
2. Of coins:
a. Coined or struck by the mill and press; made in a mill.
b. Having the edge fluted or grooved by the operation of milling.
1659Lond. Chanticleers xii. 26 He has got my box of mill'd sixpences and Harry groates. 1662in Folkes Table Eng. Silver Coins (1745) 111 Milled unites of the same weight. 1697Dryden æneis Ded. (f) 2, I had certainly been reduc'd to pay the Publick in hammer'd Money for want of Mill'd; that is in the same old Words which I had us'd before. 1702Addison Dial. Medals iii. 153, I have seen several modern Coins..that have had part of the Legend running round the edges, like the Decus et Tutamen in our milled money. 1854Humphreys Coin. Brit. Emp. 116 In 1663 the first issue of the improved milled coinage took place. 1880Academy 29 May 406 A selection of rare..milled shillings from Elizabeth to George III.
c. transf. Marked with transverse grooves or ribs; esp. of the head of a screw, etc., serrated to afford a hold for adjustment.
1705J. Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1953 The Striæ are flat and milled, like the edges of a new Shilling. 1803Mudge ibid. XCIII. 404 At E E are seen two milled-headed screws. 1861C. W. King Ant. Gems (1866) 167 These borders are milled, or formed of small strokes set close together. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 106 Above the Acetabulum..there is a..ring, more or less ‘milled’, for the attachment of the muscular fibres which move the spine. 1898Cycling 38 A milled or hexagonal ring k is then screwed over the inner steering tube.
†d. Of stockings and caps: ? Ribbed. Obs.
1684Otway Atheist i. i, Buzzing about your Ears concerning Poets, Plays..mill'd Stockings..and everything else which they do not understand. 1691Satyr agst. French 7 Nay, we are grown so arrogantly vain, Our Stockings must be Mill'd, our Shooes Campaign. 1789Trans. Soc. Arts I. 25 Cambrick, Lace, Milled Caps, and various Kinds of Paper. 1809A. Henry Trav. 34, I..covered myself only with..a molton, or blanket coat; and a large, red, milled worsted cap.
3. Pressed, rolled, ‘fulled’.
1642Rates Merchandizes 48 Double Sayes, or Flanders Searges... Mild Sayes the piece..06.00.00. 1670Lond. Gaz. No 517/4 A Stuff Cloak lined with Mill'd serge. 1802in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. (1803) VI. 283 Her coachman..within the cumbrous circumference of a double-milled great coat. 1831Double-milled [see double C 4].
4. Flattened by rolling or beating; esp. in milled board (= millboard), milled lead.
1677Lond. Gaz. No. 1232/4 The late Invention for Milled Lead. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. (title-p.), The Mill'd-Lead-sheathing, and the Excellency and cheapness of Mill'd-Lead in preference to Cast Sheet-Lead. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4342/4 At the Pastboard Warehouse..are sold brown Mill'd Boards ready beat, fit for Bookbinders. 1711Act 10 Anne c. 18 §37 All Pastboards, Mildboards and Scaleboards which shall be imported. 1858Skyring's Builders' Prices (ed. 48) 105 Milled Lead, per cwt. {pstlg}1 7s 0d. 1859Stationers' Handbk. 74 Milled Boards, strong flexible boards, of various thicknesses and sizes, made from old tarred rope. 1868Ibid. (ed. 4) 119 Milled, a term applied to paper, when rolled to an ordinary surface.
5. Whipped or beaten to a froth.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 171 They..breakfasted on a pot of milled chocolate.
6. a. Ground in a mill. b. Hulled. c. Pressed in a mill to extract juice.
1813T. Davis Agric. Wilts Gloss., Milled Hop, hop clover-seed cleaned from the husk. a1831Bentham Lang. Wks. 1843 VIII. 317/1 Milled corn is not cold; ice is cold. 1884G. W. Cable Creoles of Louisiana xxxii. (1885) 249 Milled breadstuffs still sought the cheapest rates of freight.
7. (See quot.; perh. not the same word.)
1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 18 When they [ewes] have been crossed with rams of a different breed, they are called crones, crocks, or milled ewes. |