| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| minae | plural | of Mina |
| minas | plural | of Mina |
| mince | verb t. | To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat., 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., To affect; to make a parade of., To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner., To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner., A short, precise step; an affected manner. |
| mined | imp. & past participle | of Mine |
| miner | noun | 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., Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies., The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula). |
| minge | verb t. | To mingle; to mix., A small biting fly; a midge. |
| minim | noun | Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; — applied to animalcula; and the like., The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm., A small fish; a minnow., A little man or being; a dwarf., One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola., A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets., A short poetical encomium., Minute. |
| minny | noun | A minnow. |
| minor | adjective | Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body., Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third., 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., The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness., A Minorite; a Franciscan friar. |
| minos | noun | 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. |
| minow | noun | See Minnow. |
| minum | noun | A small kind of printing type; minion., A minim. |
| minus | adjective | Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. |