MPage 244
- English Word Miner Definition 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.
- English Word Miner Definition Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
- English Word Miner Definition The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).
- English Word Mineral Definition 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.
- English Word Mineral Definition A mine.
- English Word Mineral Definition Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
- English Word Mineral Definition Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
- English Word Mineral Definition Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
- English Word Mineralist Definition One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
- English Word Mineralization Definition 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.
- English Word Mineralization Definition The act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.
- English Word Mineralization Definition The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.
- English Word Mineralize Definition To transform into a mineral.
- English Word Mineralize Definition To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
- English Word Mineralize Definition To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
- English Word Mineralized Definition of Mineralize
- English Word Mineralizer Definition 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.
- English Word Mineralizing Definition of Mineralize
- English Word Mineralogical Definition Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
- English Word Mineralogically Definition According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.