Definition of "ming"

ming¹

/mɪŋ/

verb
third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged or meint or ment or meynt
1. (now rare) To mix, blend, mingle.
  Quotations
  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, William Turner, Baths
2. (obsolete) To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
  Quotations
  the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
3. (UK, Ireland, dialectal) To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
noun
plural mings
1. (Britain, Ireland) A mixture.
2. (Britain, Lincolnshire, obsolete, land) The state of being under mixed ownership; land under mixed ownership, particularly without physical demarcations designating ownership.
  Quotations
  Property: 1. 6 acres of land in ming with a meadow of Glebe land of the rectory of Grayingham.
  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.

ming²

/mɪŋ/

verb
third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged
1. (Britain, Ireland, slang) To be unattractive (person or object).
2. (Britain, Ireland, slang) To be foul-smelling.

ming³

/mɪŋ/

verb
third-person singular simple present mings, present participle minging, simple past and past participle minged
1. (transitive, obsolete) To speak of, to mention.

ming⁴

/mɪŋ/

noun
uncountable
1. (Confucianism) Destiny, fate.