Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 49
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 ; as, he doesn't mince words.
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say -- "I love you." -- Shak.
Siren, now mince the sin, And mollify damnation with a phrase. -- Dryden.
If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him. -- Dryden.
Mince (v. t.) To affect; to make a parade of. [R.] -- Shak.
Mince (v. i.) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, . . . mincing as they go. -- Is. iii. 16.
I 'll . . . turn two mincing steps Into a manly stride. -- Shak.
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 (n.) Food chopped into small bits; "a mince of mushrooms".
Mince (v.) Make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears" [syn: mince, soften, moderate].
Mince (v.) Walk daintily; "She minced down the street".
Mince (v.) Cut into small pieces; "mince the garlic".
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.
Mindanao (n.) 民答那峨島（菲律賓文：Mindanao）菲律賓第二大島，也是世界第19大島。
是菲律賓最南的島嶼，北與米沙鄢群島相望，西與巴拉望島、蘇祿群島等相鄰，南為加里曼丹島；多崎嶇的斷層山和火山；阿波火山是全島最高點。
全島面積94,630平方公里，人口以信奉伊斯蘭教的摩洛人為主。主要城市有達沃市、三寶顏等。
Is the second largest island in the Philippines. Mindanao and the smaller islands surrounding it make up the island group of the same name. As of the 2010 census, the main island was inhabited by 20,281,545 people, while the entire Mindanao island group had a total of 21,968,174 residents.
According to the 2015 Philippine Population Census, Davao City is the most populous city on the island, with a population of 1,632,991 residents, followed by Zamboanga City (pop. 861,799), Cagayan de Oro City (pop. 675,950), General Santos City (pop. 594,446) and Iligan City (pop. 342,618). [3] About 70% of residents identify as Christian, and 20% identify as Muslim. [4] Mindanao is divided into 6 Regions; Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Caraga, Davao, Soccsksargen, and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Native ethnic groups in Mindanao include the Lumad (the Tausugs, Subanons, Samals, and Badjaos of the Zamboanga Peninsula; [5] the Bukidnon, Manobos, Mamanwas, Talaandig, and Higaonon of Northern Mindanao and Caraga; [6] [7] the Bagobo and Samal Mandayas of Davao [8]), and the Moro (Paramata Bantogen, Mabaning Gandamatu, Daranda Mabagani, and Maranaw) in ARMM and Soccsksargen.
Mindanao is considered the major Breadbasket of the Philippines.[9] Eight of the top 10 agri-commodities exported from the Philippines come from the island.[10]
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 (n.) 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 (n.) A mine. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Mineral (n.) 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.
Mineral acids (Chem.), Inorganic acids, as sulphuric, nitric, phosphoric, hydrochloric, acids, etc., as distinguished from the organic acids.
Mineral blue, the name usually given to azurite, when reduced to an impalpable powder for coloring purposes.
Mineral candle, A candle made of paraffin.
Mineral caoutchouc, An elastic mineral pitch, a variety of bitumen, resembling caoutchouc in elasticity and softness.
See Caoutchouc, and Elaterite.
Mineral chameleon (Chem.) See Chameleon mineral, under Chameleon.
Mineral charcoal. See under Charcoal.
Mineral cotton. See Mineral wool (below).
Mineral green, A green carbonate of copper; malachite.
Mineral kingdom (Nat. Sci.), That one of the three grand divisions of nature which embraces all inorganic objects, as distinguished from plants or animals.
Mineral oil. See Naphtha, and Petroleum.
Mineral paint, A pigment made chiefly of some natural mineral substance, as red or yellow iron ocher.
Mineral patch. See Bitumen, and Asphalt.
Mineral right, The right of taking minerals from land.
Mineral salt (Chem.), A salt of a mineral acid.
Mineral tallow, A familiar name for hatchettite, from its fatty or spermaceti-like appearance.
Mineral water. See under Water.
Mineral wax. See Ozocerite.
Mineral wool, A fibrous wool-like material, made by blowing a powerful jet of air or steam through melted slag. It is a poor conductor of heat.
Mineral (a.) Relating to minerals; "mineral elements"; "mineral deposits".
Mineral (a.) Composed of matter other than plant or animal; "the inorganic mineral world".
Mineral (n.) Solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition.
Mineral -- U.S. County in Montana
Population (2000): 3884
Housing Units (2000): 1961
Land area (2000): 1219.821073 sq. miles (3159.321942 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.556614 sq. miles (9.211588 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1223.377687 sq. miles (3168.533530 sq. km)
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 47.143735 N, 114.965059 W
Headwords:
Mineral
Mineral, MT
Mineral County
Mineral County, MT
Mineral -- U.S. County in Nevada
Population (2000): 5071
Housing Units (2000): 2866
Land area (2000): 3756.404850 sq. miles (9729.043485 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 56.564967 sq. miles (146.502586 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3812.969817 sq. miles (9875.546071 sq. km)
Located within: Nevada (NV), FIPS 32
Location: 38.525236 N, 118.466414 W
Headwords:
Mineral
Mineral, NV
Mineral County
Mineral County, NV
Mineral -- U.S. County in West Virginia
Population (2000): 27078
Housing Units (2000): 12094
Land area (2000): 327.733047 sq. miles (848.824658 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.397246 sq. miles (3.618850 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 329.130293 sq. miles (852.443508 sq. km)
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.433373 N, 78.935756 W
Headwords:
Mineral
Mineral, WV
Mineral County
Mineral County, WV
Mineral -- U.S. County in Colorado
Population (2000): 831
Housing Units (2000): 1119
Land area (2000): 875.718798 sq. miles (2268.101177 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 1.986051 sq. miles (5.143847 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 877.704849 sq. miles (2273.245024 sq. km)
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 37.700620 N, 106.920831 W
Headwords:
Mineral
Mineral, CO
Mineral County
Mineral County, CO
Mineral, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 143
Housing Units (2000): 450
Land area (2000): 44.478574 sq. miles (115.198972 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.019981 sq. miles (0.051751 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 44.498555 sq. miles (115.250723 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47794
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 40.355686 N, 121.567333 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 96063
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mineral, CA
Mineral
Mineral, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 272
Housing Units (2000): 120
Land area (2000): 0.307906 sq. miles (0.797474 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.307906 sq. miles (0.797474 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49516
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.381921 N, 89.836576 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61344
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mineral, IL.
Mineral.
Mineralist (n.) One versed in minerals; mineralogist. [R.]
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.) (Bot.) 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.) 使礦物化，使含礦物 To transform into a mineral.
In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. -- Buckland.
Mineralize (v. t.) To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
Mineralize (v. t.) To charge or impregnate with ore.
Mineralize (v. i.) 礦物化，礦化，收集研究礦物 To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
Mineralize (v.) Convert into a mineral substance.
Mineralize (v.) Transform (a metal) into an ore.
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.) (Zool.) A carrier shell ({Phorus).
Mineralogize (v. i.) To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. -- Miss Edgeworth.
Mineralogies (n. 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.
Minnesota (n.) 美國明尼蘇達州 A midwestern state [syn: Minnesota, Gopher State, North Star State, MN].
Minnesota (n.) A state in the northern central US on the Canadian border. It has more than 10 000 lakes, and is also called the North Star State and the Gopher State. The largest city is Minneapolis and the capital city is St Paul. It became a state in 1858. Minnesota produces a large percentage of the country's iron ore, as well as farming products, machinery and computers. The Mayo Clinic, a famous medical centre, is in Rochester.
Minette (n.) The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
Minette (n.) (Petrology) 雲煌岩 A syenitic lamprophyre composed chiefly of orthoclase and biotite.
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.) 使混合，使相混 [（+with/ together）] 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.
There was . . . fire mingled with the hail. -- Ex. ix. 24.
Mingle (v. t.) To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. -- Ezra ix. 2.
Mingle (v. t.) To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
A mingled, imperfect virtue. -- Rogers.
Mingle (v. t.) To put together; to join. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Mingle (v. t.) To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
[He] proceeded to mingle another draught. -- Hawthorne.
Mingle (v. i.) 混合起來，相混合；交往，往來 [（+with/ in）] To become mixed or blended.
Mingle (v. i.) To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs.
Mingle (v. i.) To move (among other people); -- of people; as, the president left his car to mingle with the crowd; a host at a a party should mingle with his guests.
Mingle (n.) A mixture. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Mingle (v.) To bring or combine together or with something else; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: {mix}, {mingle}, {commix}, {unify}, {amalgamate}].
Mingle (v.) Get involved or mixed-up with; "He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair".
Mingle (v.) Be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled" [syn: {jumble}, {mingle}].
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.