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Etymology: From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish min, Faroese and Icelandic mín.

1. My; belonging to me.

   “Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!”

2. My; belonging to me.

   “[…] Flesh and blood, / You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, / […]”

3. My; belonging to me.

   “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / […]”

   “1930 Winter, Packard Motor Car Company, The Packard Magazine, Volume 9, Number 2, page 6, Mine host, it seemed, did favors for everybody...”

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from French mine.

1. Alternative form of mien.

pron

1. Honorific alternative letter-case form of mine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French mine, from Late Latin mina, from Gaulish (compare to Welsh mwyn, Irish mianach (“ore”)), from Proto-Celtic *meinis (“ore, metal”).

1. To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.

   “Crater of Diamonds State Park is the only place in the world where visitors can mine their own diamonds.”

2. To dig into, for ore or metal.

   “Lead veins have been traced […] but they have not been mined.”

3. To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).

   “We had to slow our advance after the enemy mined the road ahead of us.”

4. To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
5. To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.

   “the mining cony”

6. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.

   “They mined the walls.”

   “Too lazy, perhaps, to cut [these immense trees] down, the spoilers […] had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.”

7. To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
8. To tap into.
9. To pick one's nose.
10. To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.

    “Bitcoin supporters say that estimates of its carbon footprint are overstated. And if the computers that mine and help transact bitcoins are attached to an electric grid that uses wind and solar power, they add, mining and using it will become cleaner over time.”