Mince (v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
Mince (v. t.) To affect; to make a parade of.
Mince (v. i.) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
Mince (v. i.) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
Mince (n.) A short, precise step; an affected manner.
Mince-meat (n.) 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.
Mince pie () A pie made of mince-meat.
Mincer (n.) One who minces.
Mincing (a.) That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
Mincingly (adv.) In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.
Mind (v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body.
Mind (v.) The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief.
Mind (v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.
Mind (v.) Courage; spirit.
Mind (v.) Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.
Minded (imp. & p. p.) of Mind
Minding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mind
Mind (n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.
Mind (n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business.
Mind (n.) To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.
Mind (n.) To have in mind; to purpose.
Mind (n.) To put in mind; to remind.
Mind (v. i.) To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.
Minded (a.) Disposed; inclined; having a mind.
Minder (n.) One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
Minder (n.) One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person.
Mindful (a.) Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.
Minding (n.) Regard; mindfulness.
Mindless (a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
Mindless (a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.
Mine (n.) See Mien.
Mine (pron. & a.) 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.
Mine (v. i.) To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
Mine (v. i.) To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.
Mined (imp. & p. p.) of Mine
Mining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mine
Mine (v. t.) To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
Mine (v. t.) To dig into, for ore or metal.
Mine (v. t.) To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
Mine (v. i.) A subterranean cavity or passage
Mine (v. i.) A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
Mine (v. i.) A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
Mine (v. i.) Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
Mine (v. i.) Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good.
Miner (n.) One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
Miner (n.) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
Miner (n.) The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).
Mineral (v. i.) An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
Mineral (v. i.) A mine.
Mineral (v. i.) Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
Mineral (a.) Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
Mineral (a.) Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
Mineralist (n.) One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
Mineralization (n.) The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
Mineralization (n.) The act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.
Mineralization (n.) The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.
Mineralized (imp. & p. p.) of Mineralize
Mineralizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mineralize
Mineralize (v. t.) To transform into a mineral.
Mineralize (v. t.) To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
Mineralize (v. i.) To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
Mineralizer (n.) 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.
Mineralogical (a.) Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
Mineralogically (adv.) According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
Mineralogist (n.) One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
Mineralogist (n.) A carrier shell (Phorus).
Mineralogize (v. i.) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
Mineralogies (pl. ) of Mineralogy
Mineralogy (n.) The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.
Mineralogy (n.) A treatise or book on this science.
Minerva (n.) The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
Minette (n.) The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
Minever (n.) Same as Miniver.
Minge (v. t.) To mingle; to mix.
Minge (n.) A small biting fly; a midge.
Mingled (imp. & p. p.) of Mingle
Mingling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mingle
Mingle (v. t.) To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
Mingle (v. t.) To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
Mingle (v. t.) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
Mingle (v. t.) To put together; to join.
Mingle (v. t.) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
Mingle (v. i.) To become mixed or blended.
Mingle (n.) A mixture.
Mingleable (a.) That can be mingled.
Mingledly (adv.) Confusedly.
Mingle-mangle (v. t.) To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of.
Mingle-mangle (n.) A hotchpotch.
Minglement (n.) The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed.
Mingler (n.) One who mingles.
Minglingly (adv.) In a mingling manner.
Minaceous (a.) Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
Miniard (a.) Migniard.
Miniardize (v. t.) To render delicate or dainty.
Miniated (imp. & p. p.) of Miniate
Miniating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Miniate
Miniate (v. t.) To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.
Miniate (a.) Of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.
Miniature (v.) Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
Miniature (v.) Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.