Minim

Minim

(1): ( n.) Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; - applied to animalcula; and the like.

(2): ( 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.

(6): ( n.) A little man or being; a dwarf.

(7): ( n.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

(8): ( n.) A short poetical encomium.