Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 48
Millet (n.) (Bot.) [C][U]【植】 黍，稷；黍的穀粒；小米，粟；小米的穀粒 The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.
Note: Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense.
Egyptian millet or East Indian millet is Penicillaria spicata.
Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under Indian.)
Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; -- called also Hungarian grass.
Texas millet is Panicum Texanum.
Wild millet, or Millet grass, Is Milium effusum, a tall grass growing in woods.
Millet (n.) Any of various small-grained annual cereal and forage grasses of the genera Panicum, Echinochloa, Setaria, Sorghum, and Eleusine.
Millet (n.) French painter of rural scenes (1814-1875) [syn: Millet, Jean Francois Millet].
Millet (n.) Small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italic.
Millet, () (Heb. dohan; only in Ezek. 4:9), a small grain, the produce of the Panicum miliaceum of botanists. It is universally cultivated in the East as one of the smaller corn-grasses. This seed is the cenchros of the Greeks. It is called in India warree, and by the Arabs dukhan, and is extensively used for food, being often mixed with other grain. In this country it is only used for feeding birds.
Milli- () (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampere.
Milliampere (n.) (Elec.) 【電】毫安（培） The thousandth part of one ampere.
Milliampere (n.) One thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA]
Milliard (n.) 【英】十億 A thousand millions; -- usually called billion in the United States. See Billion.
Milliary (a.) Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.
A milliary column, From which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note. -- Evelyn.
Milliaries (n. pl. ) of Milliary.
Milliary (a.) A milestone.
Millier (n.) A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.
Millier (n.) (In British English) A metric weight of one million grams.
Millifold (a.) 千倍的 Thousandfold. [R.] -- Davies (Holy Roode).
Milligram (n.) 毫克；公絲（千分之一克） Alt. of Milligramme.
Milligramme (n.) A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois. Milliliter
Milligram (n.) One thousandth (1/1,000) gram [syn: milligram, mg].
Milliliter (n.) 毫升；公撮（千分之一升） Alt. of Millilitre.
Millilitre (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce. Millimeter
Milliliter (n.) A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter [syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc].
Millimeter (n.) Alt. of Millimetre.
Millimetre (n.) A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.
Millimetre (n.) A metric unit of length equal to one thousandth of a meter [syn: millimeter, millimetre, mm].
Milliner (n.) 女帽製造及販賣商 Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.]
No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. -- Shak.
Milliner (n.) A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women.
Man milliner, A man who makes or deals in millinery, that occupation having been at one time predominantly performed by women; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.
Milliner (n.) Someone who makes and sells hats [syn: hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modiste].
Millinery (n.) 女帽類；女帽業 The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
Millinery (n.) The business of work of a milliner.
Millinery (n.) Shop selling women's hats [syn: millinery, hat shop].
Millinery (n.) Hats for women; the wares sold by a milliner [syn: millinery, woman's hat].
Millinery (n.) [ U ] 女帽；女性頭飾用品 The hats and other goods that are sold by a milliner.
Millinet (n.) A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.
Milling (n.) 碾磨；磨粉；【機】銑 The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill.
High milling, Milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product.
Low milling, Milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding.
Milling cutter, A fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes.
Milling machine, A machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters.
Milling tool, A roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.
Mill (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Milled; p. pr. & vb. n. Milling.] 碾碎；將……磨成粉；【機】銑 To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
Mill (v. t.) To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
Mill (v. t.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
Mill (v. t.) To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
Mill (v. t.) To beat with the fists. [Cant] -- Thackeray.
Mill (v. t.) To roll into bars, as steel.
To mill chocolate, To make it frothy, as by churning.
Milling (n.) Corrugated edge of a coin.
Million (n.) 百萬，100萬；無數，大眾 The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred.
Million (n.) A very great number; an indefinitely large number.
Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know. -- Locke.
Million (n.) The mass of common people; -- with the article the.
For the play, I remember, pleased not the million. -- Shak.
Million (a.) (In Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units.
Million (n.) The number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros [syn: million, 1000000, one thousand thousand, meg].
Million (n.) A very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole); "there were millions of flies" [syn: million, billion, trillion, zillion, jillion, gazillion].
Millionaire (n.) 百萬富翁，大富豪 One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire.]
Millionaire (n.) A person whose material wealth is valued at more than a million dollars
Millionairess (n.) 女百萬富翁，百萬富翁的妻子 A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [Humorous] -- Holmes.
Millionairess (n.) A woman millionaire.
Millionary (a.) 非常富有的 Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits. -- Pinkerton.
Millioned (a.) Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Millionnaire (n.) [F.] 百萬富翁，大富豪 Millionaire.
Millionaire (n.) One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire.]
Millionth (a.) 第一百萬的，百萬分之一的第一百萬，百萬分之一 Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.
Millionth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.
Millionth (a.) The ordinal number of one million in counting order.
Millionth (n.) Position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things.
Millionth (n.) One part in a million equal parts [syn: one-millionth, millionth].
Milliped (n.) The same Milleped.
Milleped (n.) (Zool.) A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped.]
Millipede (n.) [ C ] (Also millipede) 馬陸，千足蟲 A small creature with a long body consisting of many parts, each part having two pairs of legs.
Compare: Centipede
Centipede (n.) [ C ] 蜈蚣，百足蟲 A small, long, thin animal with many legs.
Millistere (n.) A liter, or cubic decimeter.
Milliweber (n.) (Physics) The thousandth part of one weber.
Millrea (n.) Alt. of Millreis.
Millree (n.) Alt. of Millreis.
Millreis (n.) See Milreis.
Millrind (n.) Alt. of Millrynd.
Millrynd (n.) (Her.) A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.
Mill-sixpence (n.) A milled sixpence; -- the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).
Compare: Sixpence
Sixpence (n.) (British) 六便士 [U]；（英國舊幣制的）六便士銀幣 [C] A coin worth six old pence, withdrawn in 1980.
‘And six coins were recovered including a florin, a sixpence, two pennies and two half pennies.’
Sixpence (n.) The sum of six pence, especially before decimalization (1971).
Compare: Decimalization
Decimalization (n.) 十進位制化；採用十進位制 [U] See Decimalize
‘They have been adept at adjusting to changes that had been widely expected to cut into their livelihood - ranging from the end to fixed commissions in 1975 to decimalization.’
Compare: Decimalize
Decimalize (v. t.) 將（貨幣等）改為十進位制；對……採用十進位制 Convert (a system of coinage or weights and measures) to a decimal system.
‘These magazines listed the rank of games solely from subscriber feedback, where ratings were compiled within a ten point decimalized system.’
Compare: Coinage
Coinage (n.) 鑄幣，造幣 [U]；（總稱）硬幣，貨幣 [U]；硬幣幣制 [C] Coins collectively.
‘The volume of coinage in circulation.’
Coinage (n.) The action or process of producing coins from metal.
‘The controller of the coinage of tin.’
Coinage (n.) A system or type of coins in use.‘Decimal coinage.’
Coinage (n.) The invention of a new word or phrase.
‘The word is of Derrida's own coinage.’
Coinage (n.) A newly invented word or phrase.
‘The recent coinage “Eurointellectuals’”’
Millstone (n.) 石磨；磨石；磨難；重擔，重負 One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance in a mill [1].
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. -- Deut. xxiv. 6.
Note: The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also, some kinds of lava, as that Niedermendig, or other firm rock with rough texture. The surface of a millstone has usually a series of radial grooves in which the powdered material collects.
Millstone girt (Geol.), A hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See Farewell rock, under Farewell, a., and Chart of Geology.
To see into a millstone or To see through a millstone, To see into or through a difficult matter. (Colloq.)
Millstone (n.) (Figurative) Something that hinders or handicaps; "she was an albatross around his neck" [syn: albatross, millstone].
Millstone (n.) Any load that is difficult to carry.
Millstone (n.) One of a pair of heavy flat disk-shaped stones that are rotated against one another to grind the grain.
Millstone, NJ -- U.S. borough in New Jersey
Population (2000): 410
Housing Units (2000): 173
Land area (2000): 0.749397 sq. miles (1.940929 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.749397 sq. miles (1.940929 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46590
Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.499453 N, 74.590875 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Millstone, NJ
Millstone
Millwork (n.) 水車機械；工廠之木工製品 The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills.
Millwork (n.) The business of setting up or of operating mill machinery.
Millwork (n.) Woodwork that has been machined at a mill.
Millwright (n.) （磨坊，工廠的）建築設計師；機件修護員；工廠技工 A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
Millwright (n.) A workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery.
Milreis (n.) 巴西的舊硬幣；其貨幣單位 A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills. (1913).
MIL-REIS, () The name of a coin. The mil-reis of Portugal is taken as money of account, at the custom-house, to be of the value of one hundred and twelve cents. Act of March 13, 1843.
MIL-REIS, () The mil-reis of Azores, is deemed of the value of eighty-three and one-third cents. Act of Match 3, 1843.
MIL-REIS, () The mil-reis of Madera, is deemed of the value of one hundred cents. Id.
Milt (n.) (Anat.) The spleen.
Milt (n.) (Zool.) 雄魚的生殖腺；魚的精子 The spermatic fluid of fishes.
Milt (n.) (Zool.) The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.
Milt (v. t.) 使（魚卵）受精 To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
Milt (n.) Fish sperm or sperm-filled reproductive gland; having a creamy texture [syn: milt, soft roe].
Milt (n.) Seminal fluid produced by male fish.
Milter (n.) (Zool.) 生殖期的雄魚 A male fish.
Miltonian (prop. a.) Miltonic. -- Lowell.
Miltonic (prop. a.) (a.) 有密爾頓風格的 Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
Miltwaste () (Bot.) A small European fern ({Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.
Compare: Fern
Fern (n.) (Fern, Ferns) 蕨，蕨類植物，羊齒植物 [C] A flowerless plant which has feathery or leafy fronds and reproduces by spores released from the undersides of the fronds. Ferns have a vascular system for the transport of water and nutrients.
Class Filicopsida, division Pteridophyta
‘Found in the shade throughout the growing season are numerous ferns and fern allies.’
Milvine (a.) (Zool.) 似鳶的 Of or resembling birds of the kite kind.
Milvine (n.) (Zool.) A bird related to the kite.
Milvus (n.) (Zool.) 鳶屬 A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.
Milvus (n.) A genus including the common European kits [syn: Milvus, genus-Milvus].
Mime (n.) 笑劇；啞劇；摹擬表演；丑角；模仿演員；手勢動作 A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner; an ancient Greek or Roman form of farce.
Mime (n.) An actor in such representations.
Mime (n.) The art of representing actions, events, situations, or stories solely by gestures and body movements, without speaking; pantomime [3].
Mime (n.) An actor who performs or specializes in mime [3]; an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression; a pantomime [2]; a pantomimist; a mimer.
Syn: mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist.
Mime (n.) A mimic.
Mime (v. i.) To mimic. [Obs.] -- Mim"er, n.
Mime (n.) An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression [syn: mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist].
Mime (n.) A performance using gestures and body movements without words [syn: mime, pantomime, dumb show].
Mime (v.) (v. t.) 以笑劇形式表演；模仿；以手勢表示 Imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect; "The actor mimicked the President very accurately" [syn: mimic, mime].
Mime (v.) Act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple" [syn: mime, pantomime].
MIME, () Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (RFC 2045/2046/2047/2048/2049, IETF)
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIME, () (MIME) A standard for multi-part, multimedia electronic mail messages and web hypertext documents on the Internet. MIME provides the ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics, audio and fax. It is defined in RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049, and BCP0013. It uses mimencode to encode binary data into base 64 using a subset of ASCII. (1995-04-04)
Mime (n.) [ U ] 默劇表演 The act of using movements of your hands and body, and expressions on your face, without speech, to communicate emotions and actions or to tell a story.
// The first scene was performed in mime.
Mime (n.) [ C ] 默劇 A short play without speech.
Mime (v.) [ I or T ] 以默劇的形式表演 To act or tell a story in mime.
// The whole of the banquet scene is mimed.
Mime (v.) [ I or T ] （配合已錄好的錄音）做模擬動作，假唱，做口型 To pretend to sing, play, or say something without making any sound.
// Most of the bands that appear on the show just mime to a recording of their songs.
// He was miming something at me across the room.
Mimeograph (n.) 油印機；油印件 A copying device that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed; it was invented by Edison.
Syn: mimeo, mimeograph machine, Roneo.
Mimeograph (v. t.) 油印 To make copies of using a mimeograph; as, She mimeographed the syllabus.
Syn: mimeo.
Mimeograph (n.) A rotary duplicator that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed (trade mark Roneo) [syn: mimeograph, mimeo, mimeograph machine, Roneo, Roneograph].
Mimeograph (v.) Print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph; "She mimeographed the syllabus" [syn: mimeograph, mimeo].
Mimeograph (n.) An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.
Mimesis (n.) (Rhet. & Biol.) 模仿；【生】擬態；【醫】摹擬病 Imitation; mimicry.
Mimesis (n.) The imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature.
Mimesis (n.) Any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease.
Mimesis (n.) The representation of another person's words in a speech.
Mimetene (n.) (Min.) 砷鉛礦 See Mimetite. Mimetic
Mimetic (a.) 模仿的；有摹擬特性的；虛有其表的；【生】擬態的 Alt. of Mimetical. Mimetic comes from Greek mimetikos, from mimesis, "imitation," from mimos, a kind of drama; also, "an imitator, a copyist, an actor." Related words include mimic and mime.
Mimetical (a.) 模仿的；偽造的 Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
Mimetical (a.) (Biol.) Characterized by mimicry; -- applied to animals and plants; as, "mimetic species; mimetic organisms". See Mimicry.
Mimetic (a.) 模仿的；有摹擬特性的；虛有其表的；【生】擬態的 Characterized by or of the nature of or using mimesis; "a mimetic dance"; "the mimetic presentation of images".
Mimetic (a.) Exhibiting mimicry; "mimetic coloring of a butterfly"; "the mimetic tendency of infancy" -- R. W. Hamilton
Mimetically (adv.) 以模仿的方式 In a mimetic manner: by mime such dialogue as can be clearly expressed mimetically -- Wisconsin Idea Theatre Quarterly.
Mimetism (n.) (Biol.) 【生】擬態 Same as Mimicry.
Mimetite (n.) (Min.) 【礦】黃鉛礦 A mineral occurring in pale yellow or brownish hexagonal crystals. It is an arseniate of lead. Mimic
Mimic (n.) [C] 善於模仿的人；能模仿人的動物；滑稽劇演員，小丑 One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon. -- Burke.
Mimic (v. t.) （透過學樣）戲弄；模仿，學……的樣子；照樣子畫；與……極相似；呈現……的形象 To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.
The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply, The habit
mimic, and the mien belie. -- Dryden.
Mimic (v. t.) (Biol.) To assume
a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some
surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.
Syn: To ape; imitate; counterfeit; mock.
Mimic (a.) Alt. of Mimical.
Mimical (a.) 模擬的 Imitative; mimetic.
Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes To imitate her. -- Milton.
Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical. -- W. Wotton.
Mimical (a.) Consisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures. "Mimic hootings." -- Wordsworth.
Mimical (a.) (Min.) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; -- applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
Note: Mimic often implies something droll or ludicrous, and is less dignified than imitative.
Mimic beetle (Zool.), A beetle that feigns death when disturbed, esp. the species of Hister and allied genera.
Mimic (a.) 模仿的；好模仿的；模擬的；非真的，假裝的 Constituting an imitation; "the mimic warfare of the opera stage"- Archibald Alison
Mimic (n.) [C] 善於模仿的人；能模仿人的動物；滑稽劇演員，小丑 Someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) [syn: mimic, mimicker].
Mimic (v.) (v. t.) （透過學樣）戲弄；模仿，學……的樣子；照樣子畫Imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect; "The actor mimicked the President very accurately" [syn: mimic, mime].
MIMIC, () An early language designed by J.H. Andrews of the NIH in 1967 for solving engineering problems such as differential equations that would otherwise have been done on an analog computer.
["MIMIC, An Alternative Programming Language for Industrial Dynamics, N.D. Peterson, Socio-Econ Plan Sci. 6, Pergamon 1972]. (1995-01-19)
Mimically (adv.) In an imitative manner.
Compare: Imitative
Imitative (a.) 模仿的；偽造的 Copying or following a model or example.
‘The derring-do of our film heroes inspired us to imitative feats.’
Imitative (a.) Following a model or example without any attempt at originality.
‘An ill-conceived and imitative addition to the museum.’
Imitative (a.) (Of a word) Reproducing a natural sound (e.g. fizz) or pronounced in a way that is thought to correspond to the appearance or character of the object or action described (e.g. blob).
‘The number of imitative words in any language is bound to be quite small, and for many such words the sound-meaning relation is by no means direct.’
Mimicked (imp. & p. p.) of Mimic.
Mimicker (n.) 模仿別人的人 One who mimics; a mimic.
Mimicker (n.) (Zool.) An animal which imitates something else, in form or habits.
Mimicker (n.) Someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) [syn: mimic, mimicker].
Mimicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mimic.
Mimicry (n.) [U] 模仿；模擬；學樣；【生】擬態 The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.
Mimicry (n.) (Biol.) Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism.
Mimicry (n.) The act of mimicking; imitative behavior [syn: apery, mimicry].
Mimicry (n.) The resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects; provides concealment and protection from predators.
Mimographer (n.) (Theatre) 啞劇作家 A writer of mimes. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Mimosa (n.) (Bot.) 【植】含羞草 A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants ({Mimosa sensitiva, and M. pudica).
Note: The term mimosa is also applied in commerce to several inds bark imported from Australia, and used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark. -- Tomlinson.
Mimosa (n.) Evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers [syn: silver wattle, mimosa, Acacia dealbata].
Mimosa (n.) Any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves.
Mimosa (n.) A mixed drink containing champagne and orange juice [syn: mimosa, buck's fizz].
Mimotannic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannin or tannic acid found in Acacia, Mimosa, etc.
Mimotannic-acid (n.) (Chemistry) 比亞硝酸 A variety of tannin or tannic acid found in Acacia, Mimosa, etc.
Minae (n. pl. ) of Mina.
Minas (n. pl. ) of Mina.
Mina (n.) 麥納（古代希臘，埃及等之重量及貨幣單位） An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.
Mina (n.) (Zool.) See Myna.
Compare: Myna
Myna (n.) 【鳥】家八哥；鷯哥Myna, Mynah, n. [See Mino bird.] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic starlings of the genera Acridotheres, Sturnopastor, Sturnia, Gracula, and allied genera. In habits they resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk.
See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird. [Spelt also mynah.]
Myna (n.) Tropical Asian starlings [syn: myna, mynah, mina, minah, myna bird, mynah bird].
Mina (n.) Tropical Asian starlings [syn: myna, mynah, mina, minah, myna bird, mynah bird].
Minable (a.) 可開採的 Such as can be mined; as, minable earth. -- Sir T. North.
Minacious (a.) 威嚇的 Threatening; menacing. [R.]
Minacious (a.) Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening].
Minacity (n.) 威脅性 Disposition to threaten. [R.]
Minaret (n.) (Arch.) 清真寺的尖塔；宣禮塔 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.
Minaret (n.) Slender tower with balconies
Minaret (n.) [ C ] （清真寺的）宣禮塔 A tall, thin tower on or near a mosque (= a Muslim holy building) from which Muslims are called to pray.
Minargent (n.) 米納金特銅鎳合金 An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers. Minatorially
Minatorially (adv.) Alt. of Minatorily.
Minatorily (adv.) In a minatory manner; with threats.
Minatory (a.) = Minatorial, 威嚇的；具威脅性的 Threatening; menacing. -- Bacon.
Minatory (a.) Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening].
Minaul (n.) (Zool.) Same as Manul.
Minced (imp. & p. p.) of Mince.
Minging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mince.
Mince (v. t.) 切碎，剁碎；絞碎；細分 To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat. -- Bacon.