Hypertext Webster Gateway: "minim"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Minim \Min"im\, a.
Minute. ``Minim forms.'' --J. R. Drake.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Minim \Min"im\, n. [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. (Zo["o]l.) A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]
4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] --Milton.
5. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits
of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of
Paola.
6. (Mus.) 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Minnow \Min"now\, n. [OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse,
OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute.] [Written
also {minow}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish
({Phoxinus l[ae]vis}, formerly {Leuciscus phoxinus});
sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; --
called also {minim} and {minny}. The name is also applied
to several allied American species, of the genera
{Phoxinus}, {Notropis}, or {Minnilus}, and {Rhinichthys}.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont
fishes of the genus {Fundulus}, and related genera. They
live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also
{killifish}, {minny}, and {mummichog}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
minim
n 1: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to
1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
2: a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
3: a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
[syn: {half note}]
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