Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for grinding paints.
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Examples
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The Philadelphienne dressyth not in garments like unto Joseph, his cote of manie colors, nethir dothe shee put on clothes whych look from afar off like geographie-mapps, where the hues are as well assortyd as iff a paint-mill had bursten and scattered the piggments all pele-mele into everlastynge miscellayneous scatteratioun.
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Ditto or paint-mill for preparing colors for decoration of the sacred dances.
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Ditto, of fine-grained stone, used as a paint-mill for preparing sacred decoration colors.
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