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pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel. I kept myself from mine iniquity. Ps. xviii. 23.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

Same as Miniver.

` phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

Same as Ethiops mineral. [Obs.]

Alumina. Davy.

One of a class of strongly basic substances derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by a basic atom or radical.

A solution of silver phosphate in an aqueous solution of ethylene diamine, used as an antiseptic astringent and as a disinfectant.