A musical note having the time value of half a whole note.
1 Lloyd held the minim - glass against the light, scrutinising it with narrowed lids.
2 Not at once did he learn the art of combating starvation with minim resources.
3 It was a sixty - minim bottle, quite full, stoppered and secured.
4 He had a relation, a minim , ' in that country.
5 The following day a religious minim of the House of Chaillot came to inform me of the state of affairs.
6 Pug, bring out your takings to the last minim . (A minim is the fortieth part of a crescent.)
7 As soon as his age permitted, Pichegru was made a tutor; but all, his ambition was to become a minim .
8 Adonaïs appeared shocked at himself, and swallowed a minim of wine to cleanse his vocal apparatus from the stain of so coarse an illustration.
9 No doubt there are abject specimens of the visionary, as there is a minim mammal which you might imprison in the finger of your glove.
10 He also called upon each householder to show his interest in the work by subscribing, at Pentecost, an alms of "unum obolum ad minim . "
11 But even Prue grants that Minim has some reason for his pride.
12 A leaf was placed in ten minims of this solution; after 1 hr.
13 My notes inform me that Mr. Candy only administered twenty-five minims .
14 Another plant was exposed in the same vessel for 15 m. to forty minims .
15 Carbolic Acid.-Twoleaves were immersed in sixty minims of a solution of 1 gr.
16 Oxalic Acid.-Threeleaves were immersed in ninety minims of a solution of 1 gr.
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