minim

Noun
Synonyms: half note

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  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 noteSynonyms: half note
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Minim \Min"im\, a. Minute. "Minim forms." --J. R. Drake. [1913 Webster]
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.] [1913 Webster]

1.Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like. [1913 Webster]

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). [1913 Webster +PJC]

3.(Zool.) A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

4.A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]

5.(Eccl. Hist.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits or friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola. [1913 Webster]

6.(Mus.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets. [1913 Webster]

7.A short poetical encomium. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Minnow \Min"now\, n. [OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse, OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute.] [Written also minow.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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