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Vinony

minim

noun

  1. set of units of volume
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈmɪ.nɪm/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree French minimebor. English minim Borrowed from French minime.

  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

    “He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.”

  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

    “the minims of existence”

  5. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.

    “These as a line thir^([sic]) long dimension drew, Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence […]”

  7. A small fish; a minnow.
  8. A short poetical encomium.

    “To make one minim of thy poor handmaid”