Min"i*kin, a. Small; diminutive. Shak.
Min"im (?), n. [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.