minim
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What they meant was that Meredith Willson, 63, was a missed minim who didn't belong on the council.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Nym has 'a minim rest,' and during that short respite takes advantage of the absorbing occupations of the other three 'singers' to lay hands on whatever portable property is within his reach.
From Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Naylor, Edward W. (Edward Woodall)
Crotchet, kroch′et, n. a hook: a note in music, equal to half a minim, : a crooked or perverse fancy: a whim, or conceit.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
I repeated the operation in exactly the same manner, and now the drops averaged 1/23.5 of a minim.
From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles
Should he arrive, the breath of life still in him, His face will be repulsed from door to door; He'll get no lodging, not the very minim, Save under heaven on the pebbly shore.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 by Various
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