MINIM

noun a small fish; a minnow.

2. minim ·noun a short poetical encomium.

3. minim ·adj minute.

4. minim ·noun a little man or being; a dwarf.

5. minim ·noun anything very minute; as, the minims of existence;

— applied to animalcula; and the like.

6. minim ·noun the smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.

7. minim ·noun one of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by st. francis of paola.

8. minim ·noun a time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.