Word Meanings - STOWCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A windlass. A wooden landmark, to indicate possession of mining land.

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• MINOR
  Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode,
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• MINTMAN
  One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.
• MINETTE
  The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
• MINOS
  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.
• MINUS
  Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign , the sign denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative.
• MINNESINGER
  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
• MINSTRELSY
  1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
• MINE
  1. A subterranean cavity or passage; especially: 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
• MINGE
  A small biting fly; a midge.
• MINACIOUS
  Threatening; menacing.
• MINYAN
  A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.
• MINIACEOUS; MINACEOUS
  Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
• MINIARD
  Migniard.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. 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.
• MINERVA
  The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
• MINCE
  1. 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.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• MINORAT
  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
• MINGLEABLE
  That can be mingled. Boyle.
• AGMINATE; AGMINATED
  Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
• ALUMINATE
  A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• BABY FARMING
  The business of keeping a baby farm.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• CARBAMINE
  An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• DISCRIMINOUS
  Hazardous; dangerous. Harvey.
• CUMINIL
  A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.
• CARMINIC
  Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. Carminic acid. Same as Carmine, 3.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• IGNOMINY
  a deprivation of one's good name); in- not + nomen name: cf. F. 1. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake,