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An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.

Such as can be mined; as, minable earth. Sir T. North.

Threatening; menacing. [R.]

Disposition to threaten. [R.]

A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.

An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers.

In a minatory manner; with threats.

Threatening; menacing. Bacon.

Same as Manul.

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.

Abominable.

Inhuman. [Obs.] Fuller.

Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.

The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley.

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety.

extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

To accuse of a crime. [Obs.] -- Ac*crim`i*na"tion, n. [Obs.]