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MINIMS
Noun
minims
plural of minim
Noun
Minims
plural of Minim
Source: Wiktionary
MINIM
Min"im, n. Etym: [F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See Minor, and cf. Minimum.]
1. Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like.
2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]
4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] Milton.
5. (Eccl. Hist.)
Definition: One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.
6. (Mus.)
Definition: A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.
7. A short poetical encomium. [Obs.] Spenser.
Min"im, a.
Definition: Minute. "Minim forms." J. R. Drake.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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