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ecious 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.

Same as Ethiops mineral. [Obs.]

One who calcimines.

One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.

One who, or that which, determines or decides.

errogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc.

The office or rank of an examiner.

One who, or that which, illuminates.

A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.