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. Zool.
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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Min"im, a.
Minute.
"
Minim forms."
J. R. Drake.
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