Word Meanings - TICKETING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

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• MINOR
  Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode,
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• MINTMAN
  One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.
• MINETTE
  The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
• MINOS
  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.
• MINUS
  Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign , the sign denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• MINSTRELSY
  1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
• MINE
  1. A subterranean cavity or passage; especially: A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural
• MINGE
  A small biting fly; a midge.
• MINACIOUS
  Threatening; menacing.
• MINYAN
  A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.
• MINIACEOUS; MINACEOUS
  Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
• MINIARD
  Migniard.
• CALLER
  1. Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. Jamieson. 2. Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. 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.
• AGMINATE; AGMINATED
  Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
• ALUMINATE
  A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• BABY FARMING
  The business of keeping a baby farm.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• CARBAMINE
  An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.