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
And, on the other hand, for a minim rest, 6f.; a crotchet rest, 3f.; &c.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 by Various
A little girl of 3 years, bitten by a tiger snake, receives three minim injections every half-hour, and after three of them, whilst in a state of complete coma, gets convulsions.
From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by Mueller, A.
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
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
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