2. Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer;
minute observation.
Syn. — Little; diminutive; fine; critical; exact; circumstantial; particular; detailed. — Minute, Circumstantial,
Particular. A circumstantial account embraces all the leading events; a particular account includes each
event and movement, though of but little importance; a minute account goes further still, and omits nothing
as to person, time, place, adjuncts, etc.
Minute-jack
(Mi*nute"-jack`) n.
1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; — called also jack of the clock
house.
2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
Minutely
(Mi*nute"ly) adv. [From 4th Minute.] In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
Minutely
(Min"ute*ly) a. [From 1st Minute.] Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing. [Obs.]
Throwing themselves absolutely upon God's minutely providence.
Hammond. Minutely
(Min"ute*ly), adv. At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly. J. Philips.
Minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven.
Hammond. Minuteman
(Min"ute*man) n.; pl. Minutemen A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's
notice; — a term used in the American Revolution.
Minuteness
(Mi*nute"ness) n. The quality of being minute.
Minutia
(||Mi*nu"ti*a), n.; pl. Minutiæ [L., fr. minutus small, minute. See 4th Minute.] A minute particular; a
small or minor detail; — used chiefly in the plural.
Minx
(Minx) n. [Prob. of Low German origin; cf. LG. minsk wench, jade, hussy, D. mensch; prop. the
same word as D. & G. mensch man, human being, OHG. mennisco, AS. mennisc, fr. man. See
Man.]
1. A pert or a wanton girl. Shak.
2. A she puppy; a pet dog. [Obs.] Udall.
Minx
(Minx), n. [See Mink.] (Zoöl.) The mink; — called also minx otter. [Obs.]
Miny
(Min"y) a. Abounding with mines; like a mine. "Miny caverns." Thomson.
Miocene
(Mi"o*cene) a. [Gr. mei`wn less + kaino`s new, fresh, recent.] (Geol.) Of or pertaining to
the middle division of the Tertiary. — n. The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology.
Miohippus
(||Mi`o*hip"pus) n. [NL., fr. Gr. mei`wn less + "ippo`s horse.] (Paleon.) An extinct Miocene
mammal of the Horse family, closely related to the genus Anhithecrium, and having three usable hoofs
on each foot.
Miquelet
(Miq"ue*let) n. [Sp. miquelete.] (Mil.) An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.
Mir
(Mir) n. A Russian village community. D. M. Wallace.
Mir
(Mir), n. [Per. mir.] Same as Emir.
