† mill-washingn.
Obsolete.
The action or process of washing fabric in a washing-mill as part of a bleaching process.
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1756 F. Home Exper. Bleaching 73 Mill-washing appears a more profitable method of taking out both salts and oils.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1756- to wear late, short
- to wear many hats
- to wear motley
- to wear on
- to wear on or to the thread
- to wear one's arm in a scarf or sling
- to wear one's fingers to the bone
- to wear one's heart on one's in one's mouth
- to wear one's heart on one's sleeve
- to wear one's heart on one's tongue
- to wear one's heart upon one's sleeve
- to wear one's learning lightly
- to wear oneself to a shadow
- to wear out
- to wear out, forth
- to wear papers
- to wear petticoats
- to wear the blanket
- to wear the breeches
- to wear the bull's feather
- to wear the goat'goat horns
- to wear the goat's horns
- to wear the green willow
- to wear the horn
- to wear the horns