Reduced to very or sufficiently small particles by grinding; thoroughly or properly ground.

Of corn, etc.: ground, milled.

Of seed, rice, etc.: subjected to a process in a mill. Esp. of grain, pepper: ground, pulverized.

in various senses; esp. in smacked bottom (cf. smack-bottom n. at compounds above).

= stone-ground adj.

ground by means of millstones: cf. stone-mill n. (c).