minim

noun8

1. •
   A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2. •
   A 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.

   • He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders. — 1886
3. •
   A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4. •
   Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
5. •
   The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6. •
   A little man or being; a dwarf.

   • These as a line thir^([sic]) long dimension drew, Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence […] — 1667
7. •
   A small fish; a minnow.
8. •
   A short poetical encomium.

noun1

1. •
   A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.