A pawnbroker's shop; also a necessary house. Carried to my uncle's; pawned. New-married men are also said to go to their uncle's, when they leave their wives soon after the honey moon.
·noun ·see <<Mien>>. II. Mine ·vt To dig into, for ore or metal. III. Mine ·vi A subterranean cavi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The process of mining is described in Job 28:1-11. Moses speaks of the mineral wealth of Palestine (...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A passage made under ground, with a chamber at the end, under the place intended to be blown up; it ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
See Golden Lion Court. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
An offer, as Fielding observes, very frequently made, but never, as he could learn, literally accept...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The seat or receptacle prepared for the powder-charge, usually at the end of the gallery, and out of...
Synonymous with funnel (which see). ...
The passage of horizontal communication, as distinguished from the shaft or vertical descent, made u...
The narrow perpendicular pit by which the gallery is entered, and from which the branches of the min...
An answer to the offer of any thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is wanted, just as a band...