You cannot use mixins.less yourself. You get errors because mixin.less relies on other files, primarily variables. You, the compiler, should tell you which lines throw the error. If not, try another compiler. I am using Codekit.
You can manually add the missing variables if necessary, although this seems to be a lot of flimsy work. I would suggest either using the entire Bootstrap structure, or just using the specific blending you need and adding to the variables as needed.
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