Mimbar, mim′bar, n. the pulpit in a mosque.
Mime, mīm, n. a farce in which scenes from actual life were represented by gesture: an actor in such a farce.—n. Mim′esis, a mimicking of the speech, gestures, &c. of a person or a people: (biol.) mimicry.—adjs. Mimet′ic, -al, apt to imitate.—v.t. Mim′ic, to imitate: simulate:—pr.p. mim′icking; pa.p. mim′icked.—n. one who mimics: a buffoon: a servile imitator.—adjs. Mim′ic, -al, imitative: mock: miniature.—ns. Mim′icker; Mim′icry, act of mimicking: an imitative resemblance in one animal to another or to some inanimate object. [Gr. mimos.]
Mimeograph, mim′ē-ō-graf, n. an apparatus in which a thin fibrous paper coated with paraffin is used as a stencil for reproducing copies of written or printed matter.—v.t. to reproduce such by this means. [Gr. mimeisthai, to imitate, graphein, to write.]
Mimography, mim-og′ra-fi, n. the art of writing gesture-languages by means of pictorial symbols constituting ideographs.—n. Mimog′rapher.
Mimosa, mī-mō′za, n. a genus of leguminous plants, including the sensitive plant. [Gr. mimos.]
Mimulus, mim′ū-lus, n. a genus of figworts.
Mina, mī′na, n. a weight in silver at Athens=100 drachmas: (B.) a weight of money valued at fifty shekels. [L. mina—Gr. mna.]
Mina, mī′na, n. one of several different sturnoid passerine birds of India.
Minaret, min′a-ret, n. a turret on a Mohammedan mosque, from which the people are summoned to prayers. [Sp. minarete—Ar. manarat, lighthouse—nar, fire.]
Minatory, min′a-tor-i, adj. threatening, menacing.—Also Minā′cious. [L. mināri, -ātus, to threaten.]