Definitions
1.nounA half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2.nounA unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
3.nounA short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4.nounAnything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like."the minims of existence"
5.nounThe smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6.nounA little man or being; a dwarf.
7.nounA small fish; a minnow.
8.nounA short poetical encomium.