min

min
    n 1: a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour;
         "he ran a 4 minute mile" [syn: {minute}, {min}]
    2: any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province [syn:
       {Min}, {Min dialect}, {Fukien}, {Fukkianese}, {Hokkianese},
       {Amoy}, {Taiwanese}]
    3: an Egyptian god of procreation
    

min \min.\ n.
   An abbreviation for minute, a unit of time equal to 60
   seconds or 1/60th of an hour.

   Syn: minute, min.[abbrev.].
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

Min \Min\ prop. n.
   1. a dialect of Chinese.

   Syn: Min dialect, Fukkianese, Hokkianese, Amoy, Taiwanese.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. an Egyptian god of procreation.
      [WordNet 1.5]
    

Argentamine \Ar*gen"ta*mine\, n. Also -min \-min\ . [L. argentum
   silver + E. amine.] (Med.)
   A solution of silver phosphate in an aqueous solution of
   ethylene diamine, used as an antiseptic astringent and as a
   disinfectant.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

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MINE. An excavation made for obtaining minerals from the bowels of the 
earth, and the minerals themselves are known by the name of mine. 
     2. Mines are therefore considered as open and not open. An open mine is 
one at which work has been done, and a part of the materials taken out. When 
land is let on which there is an open mine, the tenant may, unless 
restricted by his lease, work the mine; 1 Cru. Dig. 132; 5 Co. R. 12; 1 
Chit. Pr. 184, 5; and he may open new pit's or shafts for working the old 
vein, for otherwise the working of the same mine might be impracticable. 2 
P. Wms. 388; 3 Tho. Co. Litt. 237; 10 Pick. R. 460. A mine not opened, 
cannot be opened by a tenant for years unless authorized, nor even by a 
tenant for life, without being guilty of waste. 5 Co. 12. 
     3. Unless expressly excepted, mines would be included in the conveyance 
of land, without being expressly named, and so vice versa, by a grant of a 
mine, the land itself, the surface above the mine, if livery be made, will 
pass. Co. Litt. 6; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 218; Shep. To. 26. Vide, generally, 15 
Vin. Ab. 401; 2 Supp. to Ves. jr. 257, and the cases there cited, and 448; 
Com. Dig. Grant, G 7; Id. Waifs, H. 1; Crabb, R. P. Sec. 98-101; 10 East, 
273; 1 M. & S. 84; 2 B. & A. 554; 4 Watts, 223-246. 
     4. In New York the following provisions have been made in relation to 
the mines in that state, by the revised statutes, part 1, chapter 9, title 
11. It is enacted as follows, by 
     Sec. 1. The following mines are, and shall be, the property of this 
state, in its right of sovereignty. 1. All mines of gold and silver 
discovered, or hereafter to be discovered, within this state. 2. All mines 
of other metals discovered, or hereafter to be discovered, upon any lands 
owned by persons not being citizens of any of the United States. 3. All 
mines of other metals discovered, or hereafter to be discovered, upon lands 
owned by a citizen of any of the United States, the ore of which, upon an 
average, shall contain less than two equal third parts in value, of copper, 
tin, iron or lead, or any of those metals. 
     6.-Sec. 2. All mines, and all minerals and fossils discovered, or 
hereafter to be discovered, upon any lands belonging to the people of this 
state, are, and shall be the property of the people, subject to the 
provisions hereinafter made to encourage the discovery thereof. 
     6.-Sec. 3. All mines of whatever description, other than mines of 
gold and silver, discovered or hereafter to be discovered, upon any lauds 
owned by a citizen of the United states, the ore of which, upon an average, 
shall contain two equal third parts or more, in value, of copper, tin, iron 
and lead, or any of those metals, shall belong to the owner of such land. 
     7.-Sec. 4. Every person who shall make a discovery of any mine of 
gold or silver, within this state, and the executors, administrators or 
assigns of such person, shall be exempted from paying to the people of this 
state, any part of the ore, profit or produce of such mine, for the term of 
twenty-one years, to be computed from the time of giving notice of such 
discovery, in the manner hereinafter directed. 
     8.-Sec. 5. No person discovering a mine of gold or silver within this 
state, shall work the same, until he give notice thereof, by information in 
writing, to the secretary of this state, describing particularly therein the 
nature and situation of the mine. Such notice shall be registered in a book, 
to be kept the secretary for that purpose. 
     9.-Sec. 6. After the expiration of the term above specified, the 
discoverer of the mine, or his representatives, shall be preferred in any 
contract for the working of such mine, made with the legislature or under 
its authority. 
    10.-Sec. 7. Nothing in this title contained shall affect any grants 
heretofore made by the legislature, to persons having discovered mines; nor 
be construed to give to any person a right to enter on, or to break up the 
lands of any other person, or of the people of this state, or to work any 
mines in such lands, unless the consent, in writing, of the owner thereof, 
or of the commissioners of the land office, when the lands belong to the 
people of this state, shall be previously obtained.