MINIKIN
Min"i*kin, a.
Defn: Small; diminutive. Shak.
MINIM
Min"im, n. Etym: [F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a
superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See Minor, and cf.
Minimum.]
1. Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; — applied to animalcula; and the like.
2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]
4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] Milton.
5. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.