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An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

• Minutary
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, minutes.
• Mining
  of Mine
• MINIACEOUSMINACEOUS
  Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
• Minette
  The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
• Miniating
  of Miniate
• Minimize
  To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.
• Ministered
  of Minister
• Minivet
  A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidae.
• Intercept
  To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris.
• Minster
  A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
• Minced
  of Mince
• Minging
  of Mince
• Minute
  The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
• MINIEBALL
  A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.
• Minever
  Same as Miniver.
• Miniate
  To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.
• Minima
  of Minimum
• Ministering
  of Minister

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