The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Minim \Min"im\, a.
   Minute. "Minim forms." --J. R. Drake.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Minim \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.]
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   1. Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; --
      applied to animalcula; and the like.
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   2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the
      sixtieth part of a fluid drachm, equal to one
      four-hundred-eightieth of a fluid ounce, or 0.06161
      milliliter (U. S. measure) or 0.05919 milliliters (British
      measure).
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   3. (Zool.) A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]
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   4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] --Milton.
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   5. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits
      or friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of
      Paola.
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   6. (Mus.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half
      note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or
      crotchets.
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   7. A short poetical encomium. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Minnow \Min"now\, n. [OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse,
   OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute.] [Written
   also minow.]
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   1. (Zool.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish
      (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus);
      sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; --
      called also minim and minny. The name is also applied
      to several allied American species, of the genera
      Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.
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   2. (Zool.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes
      of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live
      both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish,
      minny, and mummichog.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

minim
    n 1: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal
         to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
    2: a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
    3: a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
       [syn: half note, minim]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

106 Moby Thesaurus words for "minim":
   accidental, ace, atom, bit, breve, breve rest, crotchet, crumb,
   dab, demisemiquaver, dole, dominant, dominant note, dot,
   double whole note, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf,
   eighth note, eighth rest, enharmonic, enharmonic note, farthing,
   flat, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule,
   groat, hair, half note, half rest, handful, hemidemisemiquaver,
   iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, microbe, microorganism, midge,
   minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote,
   musical note, natural, note, nutshell, ounce, particle,
   patent note, pause, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance,
   point, quarter note, quarter rest, quaver, report, responding note,
   rest, scrap, scruple, semibreve, semiquaver, shaped note, sharp,
   sixteenth note, sixteenth rest, sixty-fourth note, smidgen, smitch,
   snip, snippet, speck, spiccato, spoonful, spot, staccato,
   sustained note, tercet, thimbleful, thirty-second note, tiny bit,
   tittle, tone, trifling amount, triplet, trivia, vanishing point,
   whit, whole note