Of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.
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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.
Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.
A factor counted as a disadvantage; a loss or potential loss in a situation or plan; as, he added up all the pluses and minuses and decided not to do it; as, the lack of money is a big minus in an election campaign.
of or relating to minuscule script, a small cursive script developed from uncial, and used in the 7th to 9th centuries.
Of or relating to a minuscule{2} or of a script written in minuscules{2}; of the size and style of minuscules{2}; written in minuscules{2}; minuscular.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, minutes.
To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly.
A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
The quality of being minute.
A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.
The mink; -- called also minx otter.
Abounding with mines; like a mine.
A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.
Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary. The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology.
An extinct Miocene mammal of the Horse family, closely related to the genus Anhithecrium, and having three usable hoofs on each foot.
An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.
Same as Emir.
A remarkable variable star in the constellation Cetus (/ Ceti).
One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders.
Remarkably; strange to say; marvelous to relate.
A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.
Native sodium sulphate; Glauber's salt.
Wonderful; admirable.
To make wonderful.
To cause to seem to be a miracle.
Same as Belvedere.
An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage.
See Nitrobenzene.
To stick in mire.
Working wonders; wonderful.
Wonderful.
The quality of being miry.
Darkness; gloom; murk.
Dark; gloomy; murky.
Dark; gloomy. See Murky.
A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound. It is also called a kazoo.
A genus comprising the elephant seals.
To reflect, as in a mirror.
Reflected in or as if in a mirror.
capable of reflecting light like a mirror; flat and reflective; as, the mirrorlike surface of the lake.
See Projector, below.
Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.
Without mirth.
Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.
A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.
The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.
Wrong; amiss.
Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
To account or reckon wrongly.
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