ming

verb6

1. •
   (UK, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
2. •
   (UK, slang) To be foul-smelling.
3. •
   (dialect, UK) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
4. •
   (no longer used) To mix, blend, mingle.

   • I founde here and there litle peces of marquesites and stones, menged with copper, but I could by no sense or wit perceyue, that the bathes had any notable qualitie thereof. — 1562
5. •
   (no longer used) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.

   • the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...]. — 1590
6. •
   (no longer used) To speak of, to mention.

noun3

1. •
   Destiny, fate.
2. •
   (UK, Ireland) A mixture.
3. •
   (UK, no longer used) The state of being under mixed ownership; land under mixed ownership, particularly without physical demarcations designating ownership.

   • 17 September 1811, [Description of] Counterpart of Demise from John Thorold to John Wilson of Grantham, Lincolnshire Archives, Ref. Thor 1/2/ZA25/4 Published by The National Archives, Accessed 19 June 2022. Property: 1. 6 acres of land in ming with a meadow of Glebe land of the rectory of Grayingham.

noun3

1. •
   A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China (China proper), as well as parts of Russia and northern Vietnam
2. •
   The pottery of the Ming era, famed for its high quality.
3. •
   a member of the family that ruled China from 1368 to 1644