A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.
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An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers.
In a minatory manner; with threats.
Threatening; menacing.
Same as Manul.
A short, precise step; an affected manner.
Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.
One who minces.
That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.
To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.
producing mood changes or distorted perception; -- used mostly of psychoactive substances; as, hallucinogenic drugs are mind-altering substances.
intensely affecting the mind, especially in producing hallucinations; -- usually of chemical substances.
mind-bending.
intellectually or emotionally overwhelming; straining one's capacity to comprehend or cope; as, a mind-boggling display; a mind-boggling puzzle.
Disposed; inclined; having a mind.
A battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the Anglo-Allied forces under duke Ferdinand of Brunswick defeated the French under Marshal Contades.
One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.
Regard; mindfulness.
Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, /Vengeance is mine; I will repay./ Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel.
extracted from a source of supply as of minerals from the earth.
a region in which explosive mines{4} have been placed, especially a region on land.
a ship equipped for laying underwater mines.
The act or process of laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment.
Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
containing or impregnated with minerals; as, mineralized water; red stains that signify mineralized land.
An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
A boat designed for the purpose of detecting and disposing of marine mines.
the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines.
The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
Same as Miniver.
A small biting fly; a midge.
an extreme stinginess.
A mixture.
A hotchpotch.
That can be mingled.
Confusedly.
The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed.
One who mingles.
In a mingling manner.
Migniard.
To render delicate or dainty.
Of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.
To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.
miniaturization.
miniaturize.
A painter of miniatures.
The act or process of making on a greatly reduced scale.
To design or construct on a smaller scale.
A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.
a mid-sized digital computer; at any given point in the development of computer technology, a minicomputer will be faster and have greater capacity than a microcomputer, but will be slower and have less capacity than a mainframe computer.
Small; diminutive.
Minute.
Of, pertaining to, or having a character of, a minim or minimum; least; smallest; as, a minimal amount or value.
A trifle; a trinket; a token.
minimization.
The act or process of minimizing.
To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.
Reduced to the smallest possible size or amount or degree.
The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to maximum.
A being of the smallest size.
Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.
Fine; trim; dainty.
A size of type between nonpareil and minion; -- used in ornamental borders, etc.
Kind treatment.
To flavor.
Like a minion; daintily.
State of being a minion.
Of the color of red or vermilion.
To diminish; to lessen.
The act of diminishing, or the state of being diminished; diminution.
To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.
A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.
See Ministry.
Ministration.
Ministerial.
Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate. One who ministers.
The act of ministering; service; ministry.
Serving to aid; ministering.
A woman who ministers.
The office of a minister.
A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead, lead tetroxide, lead orthoplumbate, mineral orange, mineral red, Paris red, Saturn red, and less definitively, lead oxide.
A fur esteemed in the Middle Ages as a part of costume. It is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals.
A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidae.
A carnivorous mammal of the genus Mustela (foremrly Putorius), allied to the weasel. The European mink is Mustela lutreola. The common American mink (Mustela vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.
A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.
A resident of Minnesota.
A low shrub (Menziesia pilosa) of the eastern U. S. with downy twigs.
A minnow.
A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
A league of professional sports teams less proficient than a major leagues. Players in the minor leagues generally are paid less than those in the major leagues, and their games attract less atention.
Of or pertaining to a minor league.
A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir.
To diminish.
A diminution.
See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.
A Franciscan friar.
The minor leagues, those leagues of professional sports teams less proficient than the majors, or major leagues.
A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.
See Minnow.
A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.
A place where money is coined by public authority.
Like new; in brand-new condition; unworn, as a coin recently made at a mint{1}; as, he had a '53 Cadillac in mint condition.
A numerical grade indicating the degree of perfection of the condition of a coin which is classified as uncirculated, ranging from 70 for a coin in perfect condition to 60 for a coin which is uncirculated but may have a weak strike, or numerous small scratches from being handled in mint bags; usually used as the abbreviation MS; as, an MS-67 Morgan Dollar.
The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively.
The coin, or other production, made in a mint.
One who mints.
One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.
In the process of subtraction{2}, the number from which another number (the subtrahend) is to be subtracted, to find the difference.
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