Obs. [ad. L. amyl-um, a. Gr. ἄμυλ-ον starch, fine meal; prop. neut. of adj. ἄμυλ-ος not ground at the mill, f. ἀ priv. + μύλ-ος mill.] Starch; finest flour. Cf. AMYDON.
1572. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 27 b. Of wheate is made amyl.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 14. Almonds … taken in with fine amill.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 171. They haue a property to stanch bleeding, mixed with Amylfloure and mints. Ibid., I. 562. Starch-floure called Amylum … called it is in Greek Amylum, because it neuer came into the mill.
