Available Definitions:
1) v. i. - The act or business of making mines or of working them.
2) a. - Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region.
3) v. i. - To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
4) v. i. - To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as, the mining cony.
5) v. t. - To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
6) v. t. - To dig into, for ore or metal.
7) v. t. - To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
8) v. i. - A subterranean cavity or passage
9) v. i. - A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; -- distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries.
10) v. i. - A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
11) v. i. - Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as, a placer mine.
12) v. i. - Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good.