Minim

·noun A small fish; a minnow.

II. Minim ·noun A short poetical encomium.

III. Minim ·adj Minute.

IV. Minim ·noun A little man or being; a dwarf.

V. Minim ·noun Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence;

— applied to animalcula; and the like.

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

VII. Minim ·noun One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

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