Crossword clues for mince
mince
- Chop into little bits
- Cut into pieces
- Chop into tiny pieces
- Chop into tiny bits
- Pie type
- Slice and dice
- Processed meat
- Cut to bits
- Cut into bits
- Cut finely
- Chop fine
- Chop into bits
- Temper, as words
- Chop into little pieces
- Word before ''words''
- What you might do to meat or words
- Step jauntily
- Soften, as words
- Soften the effect of, as words
- Prepare, as hash
- Prepare, as garlic
- Prepare pork for sausage
- Prepare parsley, perhaps
- Prepare garlic
- Pie ingredient, perhaps
- Meat in pie fillings
- Make hash
- Make fine?
- Make fine food?
- Make a certain pie filling
- Finely cut meat
- Finely chop, as garlic
- Cut very finely
- Cut into teeny bits
- Chop well, as garlic
- Chop into pieces
- Chop in a kitchen
- "Don't ___ words!"
- ___ one's words (soften)
- Hash up
- Kind of meat
- Chop finely
- Kind of pie or meat
- ___ words
- Prepare garlic, perhaps
- Not say directly
- Cut into tiny pieces
- Not use plainly
- Cut into tiny bits
- ___ pie
- Chop to bits
- Chop up
- Finely prepare
- With 45-Across, not be direct ... or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do?
- Food chopped into small bits
- Walk daintily
- Chop, as meat
- Thanksgiving pie
- Chop into small pieces
- Filling for 35 Across
- Popular pie
- Subdivide minutely
- Thanksgiving Day pie
- Holiday pie
- Ground meat
- Church Minister at first to speak affectedly
- Chopped meat Charlie dumped in pit
- Chopped meat
- Charlie apparently looking for coal to chop finely
- Setter's devouring cold chop
- Profitable source that includes cold type of meat
- A fine cut of meat
- The London Eye?
- Recipe direction
- Recipe instruction
- Recipe directive
- Cut up finely
- Cut into small pieces
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mince \Mince\ (m[i^]ns), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Minced (m[i^]nst); p. pr. & vb. n. Minging (m[i^]n"s[i^]ng).] [AS. minsian to grow less, dwindle, fr. min small; akin to G. minder less, Goth. minniza less, mins less, adv., L. minor, adj. (cf. Minor); or more likely fr. F. mincer to mince, prob. from (assumed) LL. minutiare. [root]10
See Minish.] 1. To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
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To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of; as, he doesn't mince words.
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say -- ``I love you.''
--Shak.Siren, now mince the sin, And mollify damnation with a phrase.
--Dryden.If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him.
--Dryden. To affect; to make a parade of. [R.]
--Shak.
Mince \Mince\, n. A short, precise step; an affected manner.
Mince \Mince\, v. i.
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To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, . . . mincing as they go.
--Is. iii. 16.I 'll . . . turn two mincing steps Into a manly stride.
--Shak. To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to chop in little pieces," from Old French mincier "make into small pieces," from Vulgar Latin *minutiare "make small," from Late Latin minutiæ "small bits," from Latin minutus "small" (see minute (adj.)). Of speech, "to clip affectedly in imitation of elegance," 1540s; of words or language, "to restrain in the interest of decorum," 1590s. Meaning "to walk with short or precise steps" is from 1560s. Related: Minced; mincing.
"minced meat," 1850; see mincemeat.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) Finely chopped meat. 2 (context uncountable English) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat. 3 (context countable English) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait. 4 (context countable English) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make less; make small. 2 (context transitive English) To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise. 3 (context transitive rare English) To effect mincingly. 4 (context transitive cooking English) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine. 5 (context transitive English) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of. 6 (context transitive English) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent. 7 (context intransitive English) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner. 8 (context intransitive English) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner. 9 (context archaic English) To diminish the force of.
WordNet
n. food chopped into small bits; "a mince of mushrooms"
Wikipedia
MINCE is a text editor for microcomputers that run the CP/M operating system. Developed in BDS C by Mark of the Unicorn, it was bundled with computers from Kaypro and Morrow Designs, and the Epson QX-10. It was a subset of Emacs (MINCE stands for "MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs") designed to run within the 64kB memory limit of 8-bit computers.
MINCE used a gap buffer to fit within 48kB, and implemented a very efficient virtual memory system to support multiple buffers and a maximum file size limited only by available disk space. Although it was not open source, MOTU distributed partial code they deemed most useful for extending the product. MINCE was a companion product to SCRIBBLE, a text formatter based on Scribe. This separation of duties into editor plus formatter was common among advanced word processors at that time.
In 1981 MINCE and SCRIBBLE were sold together, along with their source code and a C compiler, as a software bundle for USD$350 (almost USD$1000 in 2014 dollars) under the name "Amethyst". Amethyst was available without the compiler for $250, and MINCE and SCRIBBLE were available alone for $175. MINCE and SCRIBBLE were later developed into the Perfect Writer and FinalWord word processors. FinalWord later became Sprint. In 1984 the list price of MINCE was USD$175.
Usage examples of "mince".
He was indefatigable when it came to crushing bitter almond seeds in the screw press or mashing musk pods or mincing dollops of grey, greasy ambergris with a chopping knife or grating violet roots and digesting the shavings in the finest alcohol.
He minced off giving the menu a flap as if to fan his face, and I followed him, back towards the car-park, then through a timber back-door and into a functional corridor.
Rice, Currants, Sugar, Prunes, Cynamon, Ginger, Pepper, Cloves, Green Ginger, Oil, Butter, Holland cheese or old Cheese, Wine-Vinegar, Canarie-Sack, Aqua-vitae, the best Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.
Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.
Then Bushy Tail took a mince pie and put it in his right-hand coat pocket.
Grosvenor Square, Comte de Cavilon stepped from his closed coach with exaggerated steps and minced to the door.
Comte de Cavilon minced forward through the crowd of men with a flutter of his kerchief.
Flake cold cooked cod and reheat with butter, pepper, salt, minced parsley, cayenne, and lemon-juice.
The hideous beast, resembling a stilt-legged rhino with a ceratopsian neck frill and wicked glowing eyes, minced in and out of the bodies without stepping on a single one.
Sprinkle with crumbs, dot with butter, brown in the oven, and sprinkle with minced parsley.
Prepare a stuffing of one cupful of cracker crumbs, one cupful of oysters, one quarter of a cupful of melted butter, and salt, pepper, minced parsley, and lemon-juice to season.
When she is won, it will be by some bold and gallant gentleman, and by no mincing squire of dames, no courtly coxcomb, no fop of the Luxembourg, be his experiences of dalliance never so vast.
The minced mammoth meat was rehydrated by adding deionized water and a minute amount of fungicide to prevent the possible growth of fungi.
While some fetuses contributed whole ovary preparations, others had their ovaries minced and cultured, and others were reduced to providing disaggregated germ cell lines.
Parkwood Giller minced forward to meet him, clearly enjoying his central role in this popular drama.