Minx, n. [See Mink.] (Zoöl.) The mink; -- called also minx otter.
[Obs.]
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Min"y (mn"), a. Abounding with mines; like a mine. "Miny caverns."
Thomson.
Mi"o*cene (m"*sn), a. [Gr. mei`wn less + kaino`s new, fresh, recent.]
(Geol.) Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary. -- n.
The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology.
||Mi`o*hip"pus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. mei`wn less + "ippo`s horse.]
||(Paleon.) An extinct Miocene mammal of the Horse family, closely
||related to the genus Anhithecrium, and having three usable hoofs on
||each foot.
Miq"ue*let (?), n. [Sp. miquelete.] (Mil.) An irregular or partisan
soldier; a bandit.
Mir (?), n. A Russian village community. D. M. Wallace.
Mir, n. [Per. mr.] Same as Emir.
||Mi"ra (?), n. [NL., from L. mirus wonderful.] (Astron.) A remarkable
||variable star in the constellation Cetus (ο Ceti).
Mi*rab"i*la*ry (?), n.; pl. Mirabilaries (&?;). One who, or a work
which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders. [Obs.]
Bacon.
||Mi*rab"i*lis (?), n. [L., wonderful.] (Bot.) A genus of plants. See
||Four- o'clock.
Mi*rab"i*lite (?), n. (Min.) Native sodium sulphate; Glauber's salt.
Mi"ra*ble (?), a. [L. mirabilis, fr. mirari to wonder: cf. OF. mirable.
See Marvel.] Wonderful; admirable. [Obs.] Shak.
Mir"a*cle (?), n. [F., fr. L. miraculum, fr. mirari to wonder. See
Marvel, and cf. Mirror.]