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Definition of Minims

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Minim Min"im, a. Minute. ``Minim forms.' --J. R. Drake.
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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.
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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.

Meaning of Minims from wikipedia

- drop Order of Minims, a member of a religious order founded by St. Francis of Paula Franciscan Minims of the Perpetual Help of Mary Minim (palaeography)...
- The Order of Minims (Latin: Ordo Minimorum; abbreviated OM), known in German-speaking countries as the Paulaner Order (German: Paulanerorden), are a religious...
- "textualis without feet", has minims with no finials at all, while textualis rotunda has round finials. "Medieval Minims". History Today. Retrieved 2022-03-11...
- Look up minim in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The minim (abbreviated min, ♏︎ or ♍︎) is a unit of volume in both the imperial and U.S. customary systems...
- Atropine is a tropane alkaloid and anticholinergic medication used to treat certain types of nerve agent and pesticide poisonings as well as some types...
- The four species (Hebrew: ארבעת המינים arba'at ha-minim, also called arba'a minim) are four plants—the etrog, lulav, had****, and aravah—mentioned in the...
- community of monks of the order of the Minimes; their presence is remembered by the name of the Lac des Minimes within the park. In 1654 Cardinal Mazarin...
- The Order of Atonement of the Franciscan Minims of the Perpetual Help of Mary (mfPS) is a single (one single order, not three like the 1st, 2nd and 3rd...
- The Birkat haMinim (Hebrew: ברכת המינים "Blessing on the heretics") is a curse on heretics which forms part of the Jewish rabbinical liturgy. It is the...
- In music, a half note (American) or minim (British) is a note pla**** for half the duration of a whole note (or semibreve) and twice the duration of a...