minim
Example Sentences
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Here are "cachets," "minims," "possets," "epithems;" here advice against "the popular indulgence of biting off blood blisters" and a course of action "on becoming indifferent to the fate of your ship."
From Time Magazine Archive
He would further aid his navigators by having them drop, as they fly, minims of potassium permanganete upon the ice-floes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The total quantity of the antidote in this case administered was only 110 minims of a one in 120 solution of strychniæ acetas, or 11/12ths of a grain of that drug.
From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by Mueller, A.
"She had taken all but five minims before I could reach her."
From A Modern Wizard by Ottolengui, Rodrigues
He is admitted fully conscious and apparently but slightly under the influence of snake-poison, for a five minims injection is reported to have removed the symptoms.
From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by Mueller, A.
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