minium (minium)

minium and nitric acid. red heat for some time in presence of air. It is a bright-orange granular powder, used as a pigment and in the manufacture of flint-gla . See vermilion. - Iron minium, a name given to a large number of substances used as paints, especially for ironwork and sea-going ve els. Oxidized minium, a dried composition consisting of lead nitrate, lead peroxid, and undecomposed minium, obtained by drying a magma of miniver (min'i-ver), n. [Formerly also min ever, meniver, dial. minifer; A burnet cote heng therwith alle, Furred with no menyvere . IMG:content-0678.png:[blocks in formation] [Formerly also ministery; = F. ministère Sp. Pg. It. ministerio, It was a worthy edifying sight. To see kind hands attending day and night, With tender ministry , from place to place. Thomson, Castle of Indolence, ii. 75. 2. The state of ministering or serving; agency; instrumentality. The natural world he made after a miraculous manner; but directs the affairs of it ever since by... the ordinary ministry of second causes. Bp. Atterbury . IMG:content-0679.png:[blocks in formation] an error); appar. with shorter ears, uniformly bushy tail, and half-webbed feet; the color is rich dark chestnut-brown, blackening mink on the back and tail; the chin, and usually some irregular patches on the throat, breast, or belly, are white. It is 15 to 18 inches long, the tail 6 or 8 inches more. It is found everywhere in North America in suitable places; its fur American Mink ( Put or i us (Lutreola) vison). is valuable, and the animal is systematically trapped, especially in British America. Like its relatives, the mink exhales a strong musky odor, and is destructive to poultry. It has been tamed, and bred in minkeries, like the ferret. The little black or mountain mink, described by Audubon and Bachman as a distinct species, P. nigrescens, is a small dark variety. The corresponding animal in Europe is P. lutreola, commonly called norz or nörz, and by its Swedish name mänk (sometimes mank ) - the designation Euro pean mink being a late book-name. It is much like the American mink, but its average size is smaller, and it usually has the upper lip as well as the chin white, and presents certain dental peculiarities. The Siberian mink, lately so called, is the kulon, P. sibiricus, a quite different species. Also called vison. 2. Same as kingfish ( a ). minkery (ming'kėr-i), n.; pl. minkeries (-iz). [ Coues , Fur-Bearing Animals (ed. 1877), p. 182. minnet, n. and v. See min3.