Minim

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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. A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]

4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] Milton.

5. One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

6. 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.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Minute. "Minim forms." J. R. Drake.