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- English Word Mink Definition A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola. The common American mink (P. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.
- English Word Minnesinger Definition 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 verses.
- English Word Minnow Definition A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.
- English Word Minnow Definition Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.
- English Word Minny Definition A minnow.
- English Word Mino bird Definition An Asiatic bird (Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words.
- English Word Minor Definition Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
- English Word Minor Definition Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
- English Word Minor Definition A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
- English Word Minor Definition The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
- English Word Minor Definition A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
- English Word Minorate Definition To diminish.
- English Word Minoration Definition A diminution.
- English Word Minoress Definition See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.
- English Word Minorite Definition A Franciscan friar.
- English Word Minorities Definition of Minority
- English Word Minority Definition The state of being a minor, or under age.
- English Word Minority Definition State of being less or small.
- English Word Minority Definition The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
- English Word Minos Definition 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.