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  • English Word Minor Definition A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
  • English Word Minorate Definition To diminish.
  • English Word Minoration Definition A diminution.
  • English Word Minoress Definition See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.
  • English Word Minorite Definition A Franciscan friar.
  • English Word Minorities Definition of Minority
  • English Word Minority Definition The state of being a minor, or under age.
  • English Word Minority Definition State of being less or small.
  • English Word Minority Definition The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
  • English Word Minos Definition A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
  • English Word Minotaur Definition A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.
  • English Word Minow Definition See Minnow.
  • English Word Minster Definition A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
  • English Word Minstrel Definition In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
  • English Word Minstrelsy Definition The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.
  • English Word Minstrelsy Definition Musical instruments.
  • English Word Minstrelsy Definition A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs.
  • English Word Mint Definition The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.
  • English Word Mint Definition A place where money is coined by public authority.
  • English Word Mint Definition Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
  • English Word Mint Definition To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
  • English Word Mint Definition To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
  • English Word Mint-master Definition The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively.
  • English Word Mintage Definition The coin, or other production, made in a mint.
  • English Word Mintage Definition The duty paid to the mint for coining.
  • English Word Minted Definition of Mint
  • English Word Minter Definition One who mints.
  • English Word Minting Definition of Mint
  • English Word Mintman Definition One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.
  • English Word Mintmen Definition of Mintman