MINNOC
MINNOC, used by Shakespeare, is supposed by Johnson to be the same as minx.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MINNOW
MIN'NOWMI'NOR, adjective [Latin minuo, to diminish. See Mince.]1. Less; smaller; sometimes applied to the bulk or magnitude of a single object; more generally to amount, degree ...
MINOR
MI'NOR, a. [L. minuo, to diminish. See Mince.]1. Less; smaller; sometimes applied to the bulk or magnitude of a single object; more generally to amount, degree or importance. We...
MINORATE
MI'NORATE, verb transitive To diminish. [Not used.]
MINORITE
MI'NORITE, noun A Franciscan friar.
MINOTAUR
MIN'OTAUR, noun [Latin. minotaurus; from man, which must have been in early ages a Latin word, and taurus, a bull.]A fabled monster, half man and half bull.
MINOW
MIN'OW, noun A very small fish, a species of Cyprinus.
MINSTER
MIN'STER, noun A monastery; an ecclesiastical convent or fraternity; but it is said originally to have been the church of a monastery; a cathedral church.
MINSTREL
MIN'STREL, noun A singer and musical performer on instruments. Minstrels were formerly poets as well as musicians, and held in high repute by our rude ancestors. Their attendanc...
MINSTRELSY
MIN'STRELSY, noun The arts and occupations of minstrels; instrumental music.1. A number of musicians.The minstrelsy of heaven.
MINUEND
MIN'UEND, noun [Latin minuendus, minuo, to lessen.]In arithmetic, the number form which another number is to subtracted.
MINUET
MIN'UET, noun1. A slow graceful dance, consisting of a coupee, a high step and a balance.2. A tune or air to regulate the movements in the dance so called; a movement of three c...
MINUM
MIN'UM, noun1. A small kind of printing types; now written minion.2. A note of slow time containing two crotchets; now written minim, which see.
MINUTE-BOOK
MIN'UTE-BOOK, noun A book of short hints.
MINUTE-GLASS
MIN'UTE-GLASS, noun A glass, the sand of which measures a minute.
MINUTE-GUNS
MIN'UTE-GUNS, noun Guns discharged every minute.
MINUTE-HAND
MIN'UTE-HAND, noun The hand that points to the minutes on a clock or watch.
MINUTE-WATCH
MIN'UTE-WATCH, noun A watch that distinguishes minutes of time, or on which minutes are marked.
MINUTELY
MINU'TELY, adverb [from minute.] To a small point of time, space or matter; exactly; nicely; as, to measure the length of any thing minutely; to ascertain time minutely; to rela...
MINUTENESS
MINU'TENESS, noun Extreme smallness, fineness or slenderness; as the minuteness of the particles of air or of a fluid; the minuteness of the filaments of cotton; the minuteness ...
MINUTIAE
MINU'TIAE, noun [Latin] The smaller particulars.
MINX
MINX, noun A pert, wanton girl.1. A she-puppy.
MINY
MI'NY, adjective [from mine.] Abounding with mines.1. Subterraneous.
MIRABLE
MI'RABLE, adjective Wonderful. [Not in use.]
MIRACLE
MIR'ACLE, noun [Latin miraculum, from miror, to wonder.]1. Literally, a wonder or wonderful thing; but appropriately,2. In theology, an event or effect contrary to the establish...
MIRACLE-MONGER
MIR'ACLE-MONGER, noun An impostor who pretends to work miracles.
MIRACULOUS
MIRAC'ULOUS, adjective Performed supernaturally, or by a power beyond the ordinary agency of natural laws; effected by the direct agency of Almighty power, and not by natural ca...