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Seamanship. [Obs.] Udalt.

les of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.] No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.

ious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.

istinct 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.

To transform into a mineral. In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. Buckland.

combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.

Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.

According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.

One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.

To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.

The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.

The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.

missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.

One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.

One of the Monera.

The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.

Of or pertaining to the Monera.