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In a minatory manner; with threats.

Threatening; menacing. Bacon.

Same as Manul.

To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat. Bacon.

A pie made of mince-meat.

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.

One who minces.

That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.

In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.

lso, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body. By the mind of man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills. Reid. What we mean by mind is simply that which perceives, thinks, feels, wills, and desires. Sir W. Hamilton. Let every man be fully persuaded in his…

Disposed; inclined; having a mind. Joseph... was minded to put her away privily. Matt. i. 19. If men were minded to live virtuously. Tillotson.

One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.

Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant. What is man, that thou art mindful of him Ps. viii. 4. I promise you to be mindful of your admonitions. Hammond. -- Mind"ful*ly, adv. -- Mind"ful*ness, n.

Regard; mindfulness.

Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.

See Mien. [Obs.]

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.

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.

One versed in minerals; mineralogist. [R.]

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.