<B>miniskirted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> wearing a miniskirt. </DL>
<A NAME="ministate">
<B>ministate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a very small country, especially one of the newer independent small states of Africa and Asia; microstate. <BR> <I>Ex. South Africa's economic predominance radiates ... to the three ministates of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="minister">
<B>minister, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a clergyman serving a church, especially a Protestant church; spiritual guide; pastor. <BR> <I>Ex. The minister always gives a good sermon.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who is given charge of a department of the government. <BR> <I>Ex. the Minister of Finance.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a person sent to a foreign country to represent his own government, especially a diplomat ranking below an ambassador. <BR> <I>Ex. the United States Minister to Switzerland.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a person or thing employed in carrying out a purpose or the will of another; agent. <BR> <I>Ex. The storm which killed the murderer seemed the minister of God's vengeance.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) a servant or attendant. <BR> <I>Ex. A multitude of cooks, and inferior ministers, employed in the service of the kitchens (Edward Gibbon).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to attend (to comfort or wants); act as a servant or nurse; be of service. <BR> <I>Ex. She ministers to the sick man's wants. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many (Mark 10:45).</I> (SYN) serve. <DD><B> 2. </B>to be helpful; give aid; contribute. <BR> <I>Ex. My lord's clearness of mind ... had not ceased to minister to my amazement (Robert Louis Stevenson).</I> (SYN) help, assist. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>(Archaic.) to furnish; supply. <BR> <I>Ex. I will endeavour most faithfully not to minister any occasion of strife (Scott).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to dispense or administer (a sacrament). <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) to apply or administer (something healing). </DL>
<A NAME="ministerial">
<B>ministerial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of a minister; having to do with a minister. <DD><B> 2. </B>of the ministry. <DD><B> 3. </B>suited to a clergyman. <BR> <I>Ex. a ministerial manner.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>executive; administrative. <BR> <I>Ex. a ministerial act.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>acting as an agent; instrumental. (SYN) ancillary. adv. <B>ministerially.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="ministerialist">
<B>ministerialist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a supporter of the ministry in political office. </DL>
<A NAME="ministerplenipotentiary">
<B>minister plenipotentiary,</B> pl. <B>ministers plenipotentiary.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a diplomatic agent given full powers by his government; plenipotentiary. </DL>
<A NAME="ministerpresident">
<B>minister president,</B> pl. <B>ministers president</B> or <B>minister presidents.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a head of government of certain countries, especially of former East Germany. </DL>
<A NAME="ministerresident">
<B>minister resident,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a diplomatic agent to a minor country. </DL>
<A NAME="ministership">
<B>ministership, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the office of a minister. </DL>
<A NAME="ministerwithoutportfolio">
<B>minister without portfolio,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a minister in a government who does not have the position and duties of a cabinet member or minister of state, but usually acts insome special capacity as the personal agent of the chief executive. </DL>
<A NAME="ministrant">
<B>ministrant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> that ministers; ministering. <BR> <I>Ex. angels ministrant (Milton).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a person who ministers. <BR> <I>Ex. I was chosen to act as ministrant and carry the cross (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ministration">
<B>ministration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>service as a minister of a church. <DD><B> 2. </B>help; aid. <BR> <I>Ex. to give ministration to the poor; in sore extremity, when she most needed the ministration of her own sex (Francis Bret Harte).</I> </DL>
<B>ministry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the office, duties, or time of service of a minister. <BR> <I>Ex. The clergyman's ministry covered a period of fifty years.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the ministers of a church; clergy. <BR> <I>Ex. Many of the ministry of the Roman Catholic Church met in Rome.</I> (SYN) ecclesiastics. <DD><B> 3. </B>the ministers of a government, especially of the British or a European government. Ministers of a government are often equivalent to cabinet members in the United States. <DD><B> 4. </B>in Great Britain and in Europe: <DD><B> a. </B>a government department under a minister. <DD><B> b. </B>the offices of such a department. <DD><B> 5. </B>the act of ministering or serving. <BR> <I>Ex. My idea of heaven is the perpetual ministry of one soul to another (Tennyson).</I> (SYN) ministration. <DD><B> 6. </B>agency; instrumentality. </DL>
<A NAME="minisub">
<B>minisub, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a very small research submarine equipped to explore and monitor the underwater environment. </DL>
<A NAME="minitanker">
<B>minitanker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small ship or truck carrying some liquid; small tanker. </DL>
<A NAME="minitari">
<B>Minitari, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ri</B> or <B>-ris.</B> =Hidatsa.</DL>
<A NAME="minitrack">
<B>minitrack, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an electronic system for following the course of satellites and rockets by means of radio signals transmitted from the satellite or rocket to receiving stations on the ground, which pool their plottings of each reading of its position. </DL>
<B>minivan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a small van or pickup truck. </DL>
<A NAME="miniver">
<B>miniver, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a fur or combination of furs formerly much used for lining and trimming garments, especially ceremonial costumes. Miniver includes spotted white and gray fur, white fur symmetrically adorned with bits of dark fur, plain white fur, and ermine. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) any pure white fur, especially ermine. </DL>
<A NAME="mink">
<B>mink, </B>noun, pl. <B>minks</B> or (collectively) <B>mink.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small animal like a weasel that lives in water part of the time. It is found in North America, and the northern part of Europe and Asia. <DD><B> 2. </B>its valuable fur. It is most commonly a deep, lustrous brown, but occurs in other shades in certain varieties of the animal. <DD><B> 3. </B>a coat or jacket made from this fur. adj. <B>minklike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="minn">
<B>Minn.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Minnesota. </DL>
<A NAME="minnelied">
<B>minnelied</B> or <B>Minnelied, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lieder.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=minnesong.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>any song similar to a minnesong. <DD><B> 3. </B>any love song. </DL>
<A NAME="minneola">
<B>Minneola, </B>noun, pl. <B>-las.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of tangelo grown in the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="minnesang">
<B>minnesang, </B>noun. =minnesong.</DL>
<A NAME="minnesinger">
<B>minnesinger</B> or <B>Minnesinger, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of a class of German lyrical poets and singers of the 1100's to the 1300's. The chief theme of their songs was love. </DL>
<A NAME="minnesong">
<B>minnesong</B> or <B>Minnesong, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of the songs of the minnesingers; minnelied. <BR> <I>Ex. All the Minnesongs, even the most diversified, seem still to resemble each other (Longfellow).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>such songs collectively. <BR> <I>Ex. English works on the subject of the German Minnesong are ... scanty in number (F. C. Nicholson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="minnesota">
<B>Minnesota, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a breed of hogs developed in the United States by cross-breeding two or more breeds in order to obtain improved meat qualities. </DL>
<B>Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> See <B>MMPI.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="minnesotan">
<B>Minnesotan, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the state of Minnesota. <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Minnesota. </DL>
<A NAME="minnow">
<B>minnow, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nows</B> or (collectively) <B>-now.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a very small freshwater fish, especially one belonging to the same family as the carp, and certain of the killifishes. <DD><B> 2. </B>any very tiny fish. </DL>
<A NAME="minoan">
<B>Minoan, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the civilization of Crete from about 3500 to 1400 B.C.. <BR> <I>Ex. Excavations by the local department of antiquities at the site of Eraclea, a city of the Minoan period, have been completed (London Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Minoan Crete. <BR> <I>Ex. The origin of the Minoans ... remains in darkness (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
