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(n.) Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; - applied to animalcula; and the like.
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(n.) The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.
(3):
(a.) Minute.
(4):
(n.) A small fish; a minnow.
(5):
(n.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.
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(n.) A little man or being; a dwarf.
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(n.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.
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(n.) A short poetical encomium.