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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>MINTAGE</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="mint"> mint (2), noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a place where money is coined by public authority. Ex. There are several mints in the United States, all part of the Federal government. <DD> 2. a large amount. Ex. A million dollars is a mint of money. He has a mint of reasons (Tennyson). <DD> 3. (Figurative.) a place where anything is made or fabricated. <DD> 4. (Obsolete.) a piece of money; coin. <DD>v.t. 1. to coin (money). Ex. The Federal government is the only agency allowed to mint money in the United States. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) to make or fabricate; originate. Ex. to mint words or phrases. (SYN) invent. <DD>adj. 1. (of a stamp) in the condition of issue by the Post Office. <DD> 2. (Figurative.) without a blemish; as good as new. Ex. an antique car in mint condition. noun minter. </DL> <A NAME="mint"> mint (3),<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD>v.t. 1. to intend. <DD> 2. to attempt. <DD> 3. to aim (a blow). Ex. I will cleave to the brisket the first man that mints another stroke (Scott). <DD> 4. to hint at; insinuate. <DD>v.i. 1. to aim a blow; take aim in shooting. <DD> 2. to hint. </DL> <A NAME="mintage"> mintage, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act or process of minting; coinage. <DD> 2. the product of minting; output of a mint. <DD> 3. a charge for coining; cost of coining. <DD> 4. the stamp or character impressed in minting. </DL> <A NAME="mintfamily"> mint family,<DL COMPACT><DD> a large group of dicotyledonous herbs and shrubs having square stems and opposite or whorled, aromatic leaves which usually contain a volatile, aromatic oil. The family includes many herbs used in preparing food, such as mint, sage, thyme, and basil. </DL> <A NAME="mintjulep"> mint julep,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) an alcoholic beverage of bourbon, sugar, crushed ice, and fresh mint, served in a frosted glass. </DL> <A NAME="minty"> minty, adjective, mintier, mintiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like that of mint. </DL> <A NAME="minuend"> minuend, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a number or quantity from which another is to be subtracted. Ex. In 100 - 23 = 77, the minuend is 100. </DL> <A NAME="minuet"> minuet, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a slow, stately dance in triple time with complex figures. It is of French origin and was fashionable in the 1600's and 1700's. <DD> 2. music for it. <DD>v.i. to dance a minuet. </DL> <A NAME="minus"> minus, preposition, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>prep. 1. less; decreased by. Ex. gross earnings minus costs. 5 minus 2 leaves 3. <DD> 2. without; lacking. Ex. a book minus its cover. <DD>adj. 1. less than. Ex. A mark of B minus is not so high as B. <DD> 2. showing subtraction. Ex. a minus sign. <DD> 3a. less than zero. Ex. If you have no money, and owe someone 10 cents, you have minus 10 cents. <DD> b. negative in quantity. <DD> 4. (Botany.) of or having to do with the strain of heterothallic fungi which acts as the female in reproduction. <DD>noun 1. the sign (-) meaning that the quantity following it is to be subtracted. Ex. There is a minus before the number to be subtracted. <DD> 2. a negative quantity. <DD> 3. any deficiency or shortcoming; lack. </DL> <A NAME="minuscular"> minuscular, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. like a minuscule; small. <DD> 2. consisting of minuscules. </DL> <A NAME="minuscule"> minuscule, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. 1. extremely small. Ex. a minuscule person. <DD> 2a. (of a letter) small. Ex. Legal-size pages of written material in minuscule letters that can be blown up to reading size (Wall Street Journal). <DD> b. written in minuscules. <DD>noun 1. a small letter in medieval writing, neither capital nor uncial. <DD> 2. a lower-case letter. </DL> <A NAME="minussign"> minus sign,<DL COMPACT><DD> the sign indicating that the quantity following is to be subtracted, or is a negative quantity. </DL> <A NAME="minute"> minute (1), noun, verb, -uted, -uting.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. one sixtieth of an hour; sixty seconds. Ex. ten minutes to six. <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) min. <DD> 2. a short time; instant. Ex. I'll be there in a minute. <DD> 3. an exact point of time. Ex. Come here this minute. The minute you see him, please tell me. <DD> 4. one sixtieth of a degree. 10 degrees 10' means ten degrees and ten minutes. <DD>v.t. 1. to record in the minutes of a meeting or other proceeding. <DD> 2. to draft (a document, report, or the like); summarize in a memorandum. Ex. I ... told them the story ... just as I have since minuted it down (Daniel Defoe). <DD> 3. to time exactly, as movements or speed. expr. at the last minute, at the latest possible time; just before the last opportunity to do something. Ex. Labor Secretary Wirtz stepped in at the last minute to halt a strike ... which threatened opening day at the ball park (New York Times). expr. minutes, <DD> a. a written summary of what happened, such as at a meeting of a society, board, or committee, kept by the secretary. Ex. The meeting started with some disagreement asto whether executive-committee minutes should be read (Newsweek). <DD> b. a rough draft or written summary; note; memorandum. Ex. Glossin had made careful minutes of the information derived from these examinations (Scott). expr. up to the minute, up to date. Ex. She keeps her clothes up to the minute. We brought him up to the minute on the developments. </DL> </DL> <A NAME="minute"> minute (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. very small. Ex. a minute speck of dust, minute animals, minute portions, minute variations. (SYN) tiny, diminutive, little. <DD> 2. going into very small details; very precise or particular. Ex. a minute observer. He gave me minute instructions about how to do my work. (SYN) detailed. <DD> 3. of very little consequence or importance; trifling; petty. Ex. to involve the minutest details of a case. noun minuteness. </DL> <A NAME="minutegun"> minute gun,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the firing of a gun, especially a cannon, once a minute as a signal of distress or formal indication of mourning. <DD> 2. a gun used for this. </DL> <A NAME="minutehand"> minute hand,<DL COMPACT><DD> the longer hand on a clock or watch, that indicates minutes. It moves around the whole dial once in an hour. </DL> <A NAME="minutely"> minutely (1), adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. happening every minute; continually occurring; unceasing. <DD>adv. every minute; minute by minute. </DL> <A NAME="minutely"> minutely (2), adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in minute manner, form, degree, or detail. </DL> <A NAME="minuteman"> minuteman, noun, pl. -men.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of the American militia just before and during the Revolutionary War. The minutemen kept themselves ready for military service at very short notice. </DL> <A NAME="minuteman"> Minuteman, noun, pl. -men.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD> 1. a member of a secret reactionary organization formed in 1961 to prepare militarily against a communist uprising or invasion it believes to be imminent. Ex. The prisoners and weapons belonged to bands of Minutemen, a right-wing group (New York Times). <DD> 2. a three-stage, solid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile, launched from underground silos. </DL> <A NAME="minuteofarc"> minute of arc,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1/60 of a degree. </DL> <A NAME="minutes"> minutes, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under minute (1). </DL> <A NAME="minutesteak"> minute steak,<DL COMPACT><DD> a thin, small piece of steak cut from the top round, often scored or cubed, that can be cooked very quickly. </DL> <A NAME="minutia"> minutia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> singular of minutiae. </DL> <A NAME="minutiae"> minutiae, noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> very small matters; trifling details. Ex. scientific minutiae. They waited ... for the exchange of pass-words, the delivery of keys, and all the slow minutiae attendant upon the movements of a garrison in a well-guarded fortress (Scott). </DL> <A NAME="minx"> minx, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a pert girl; hussy. Ex. She liked the notion of humbling the haughty minx (Cardinal Newman). <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) a lewd or wanton woman. </DL> <A NAME="minyan"> minyan, noun, pl. minyanim, minyans.<DL COMPACT><DD> the minimum of ten male Jews over thirteen years old required by Jewish law in order to hold a religious service or to form a congregation. In Conservative Judaism, women may be included in the minyan. </DL> <A NAME="minyo"> minyo, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Japanese.) folk song; ballad. </DL> <A NAME="miocene"> Miocene, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. the fourth epoch of the Tertiary period of the Cenozoic, after the Oligocene and before the Pliocene. During the Miocene, grasses developed and grazing mammals flourished. <DD> 2. the rocks formed in this epoch. <DD>adj. of this epoch or these rocks. </DL> <A NAME="miohippus"> miohippus, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of an extinct group of horses of North America, closely related to mesohippus but somewhat larger. </DL> <A NAME="miosis"> miosis (1), noun, pl. -ses.<DL COMPACT><DD> excessive contraction of the pupil of the eye. Also, meiosis, myosis. </DL> <A NAME="miosis"> miosis (2), noun, pl. -ses. =meiosis.</DL> <A NAME="miotic"> miotic (1), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. having to do with, suffering from, or causing miosis. <DD>noun a drug that causes miosis. Also, myotic. </DL> <A NAME="miotic"> miotic (2), adjective. =meiotic.</DL> <A NAME="mip"> MIP (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Monthly Investment Plan (a plan for purchasing listed securities by investing a fixed amount on a regular or monthly basis). </DL> <A HREF="miquelet.dic">NEXT</A>