Lexicographical Neighbors of Mingin
Literary usage of Mingin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Ocean: With Descriptions of Its by Alexander G. Findlay (1866)
"mingin is in 3° 38' 30" N.; its river is quite small. A sand-bar chokes up its
entrance, and it is accessible to boats only after heavy rains. ..."
2. Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States by James George Scott, John Percy Hardiman (1901)
"A township of the mingin subdivision of Upper ... which divide the valley from
the mingin township. ... The opening out of a direct road from mingin to ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"... being now in the neighbourhood, would pay him a visit, if agreeable to him.
In consequence of the disturbances in the mingin district, ..."
4. The Indian Forester (1894)
"Mr. HN Thompson, Assistant Conservator of Forests, is transferred from mingin to
the charge of the Toungoo Forest division. No. 293. ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"(1) A small piece, mingin, J applied chiefly to food. Hungry children say, on
receiving a small piece, " what a mingin to give me." (2) A small gnat. ..."
6. The Pacification of Burma by Charles Haukes Todd Crosthwaite (1912)
"Lower down, the country round mingin, where Mr. Gleeson, ... The Kani township,
which adjoins mingin, had been governed from the first by the Burmese Wun ..."
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