Miner(n.) One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
Miner(n.) Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.
Miner(n.) The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).
Mineral(a.) Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as, a mineral substance.
Mineral(a.) Impregnated with minerals; as, mineral waters.
Mineral(v. i.) An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
Mineral(v. i.) A mine.
Mineral(v. i.) Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).
Mineralization(n.) 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.
Mineralization(n.) The act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.
Mineralization(n.) The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.
Mineralize(v. i.) To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.
Mineralize(v. t.) To transform into a mineral.
Mineralize(v. t.) To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
Mineralized(imp. & p. p.) of Mineralize
Mineralizer(n.) An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
Mineralizing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mineralize
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