(a) A water mill for grinding grain; (b) a wind mill; (c) a military engine devised by Richard I; (d) any power-driven mill for grinding grain, etc.; (e) a hand mill, a quern; (f) a fulling mill; (g) in proverbs & sayings.

In cpds. & combs.: (a) ~ bank, the bank of a stream on which a mill is situated; ~ bed [see bed n.(1) 5.]; ~ clakke, ~ clappe, clapper of a mill; also, noise of a mill [cp. clakke n.(2) (b) & clappe 3. (a)]; ~ corn, grain intended for milling; ~ dam, milldam; ~ dogge, ?dog used for driving a mill; ~ dore, door of a millhouse; ~ dust, ~ meledust, milldust [see also dust 1. (d)]; ~ eles, ?eels from a millpond or millstream; ~ flem, a millrace; ~ grom, ~ man, a miller's servant or helper [see 3. (a)]; ~ hille, hill or mound on which a mill is situated; ~ hors, horse used to drive a mill; ~ hous, millhouse, building that houses a mill; (b) ~ iren, ~ pik, tool used to trim the grinding surfaces of millstones; ~ makere, ?a maker of millstones [see 3. (a)]; ~ male, fee for milling grain; ~ place, millsite; ~ pit, ~ pol, ~ pond, millpond; ~ post, supporting shaft of a windmill; ~ seil, one of the sails of a windmill; ~ sille, ?foundation of a mill; ~ spindel, millspindle (on which the upper millstone turns); ~ stepe, ?main bearing of a mill; miln ston, q.v.; ~ teth, grinding teeth, molars; ~ trough [OE mylen-troh] a millrace; ~ ward [OE mylen-weard], keeper of a mill, miller; ~ wei, road leading towards a mill; ~ whel [OE mylenhwēol], wheel that drives a water mill; ~ wright, designer or maker of mills; (c) corn ~, a mill for the grinding of grain [see also corn 5. (c)]; fullinge ~ [see fullinge ger.(2)]; gig ~ [see gig-mille n.]; hors ~, a horse-driven mill [see also hors 8. (h)]; malt ~, a mill for grinding malt [see also malt 2. (b)]; toun ~, water ~, wind ~, q.v.

(a) In surnames; (b) in place names and names of mills [see Smith PNElem. 2.38, 46].