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- Minute - n. - The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
- Minute - n. - The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10¡ 20').
- Minute - n. - A nautical or a geographic mile.
- Minute - n. - A coin; a half farthing.
- Minute - n. - A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
- Minute - n. - A point of time; a moment.
- Minute - n. - The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.
- Minute - n. - A fixed part of a module. See Module.
- Minute - a. - Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
- Minute - p. pr. & vb. n. - To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
- Minute - a. - Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
- Minute - a. - Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
- Minute-jack - n. - A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.
- Minute-jack - n. - A timeserver; an inconstant person.
- Minutely - adv. - In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
- Minutely - a. - Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing.
- Minutely - adv. - At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly.
- Minuteman - n. - A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
- Minutemen - pl. - of Minuteman
- Minuteness - n. - The quality of being minute.
- Microscope - n. - An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
- Chronoscope - n. - An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.
- Papilla - n. - Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue.
- Paxillus - n. - One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.
- Tear-thumb - n. - A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.
- Particularism - n. - A minute description; a detailed statement.
- Second - a. - The sixtieth part of a minute of time or of a minute of space, that is, the second regular subdivision of the degree; as, sound moves about 1,140 English feet in a second; five minutes and ten seconds north of this place.
- Laciniolate - a. - Consisting of, or abounding in, very minute laciniae.
- Protococcus - n. - A genus of minute unicellular algae including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis).
- Oidium - n. - A genus of minute fungi which form a floccose mass of filaments on decaying fruit, etc. Many forms once referred to this genus are now believed to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oidium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.
- Gas-burner - n. - The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
- Blindworm - n. - A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.
- Cell - n. - One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
- Particularity - n. - Special circumstance; minute detail; particular.
- Tubule - n. - A minute tube lined with glandular epithelium; as, the uriniferous tubules of the kidney.
- Spiculate - a. - Covered with minute spiculae, or pointed fleshy appendages; divided into small spikelets.
- Crystallite - n. - A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not referable to any mineral species, but marking the first step in the crystallization process. According to their form crystallites are called trichites, belonites, globulites, etc.
- Irrorate - a. - Covered with minute grains, appearing like fine sand.
- Plantain - n. - Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.
- Amphiuma - n. - A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.
- Spherulate - a. - Covered or set with spherules; having one or more rows of spherules, or minute tubercles.
- Prolix - a. - Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.
- Shade - n. - A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms.
- Fuzz - v. i. - To fly off in minute particles.
- Paraphysis - n. - A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.
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- H6182 עֲרִיסָה - 6182 עֲרִיסָה - עֲרִיסָה - - ʻărîyçâh - ar-ee-saw' - from an unused root meaning to comminute; meal; dough. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H7450 רָסַס - 7450 רָסַס - רָסַס - - râçaç - raw-sas' - a primitive root; to comminute; used only as denominative from רָסִיס,; to moisten (with drops); temper. - Verb - heb
- G4486 ῥήγνυμι - 4486 ῥήγνυμι - ῬΉΓΝΥΜΙ - - rhḗgnymi - hrace'-so - both prolonged forms of (which appears only in certain forms, and is itself probably a strengthened form of agnumi (see in κατάγνυμι)); to "break," "wreck" or "crack", i.e. (especially) to sunder (by separation of the parts; κατάγνυμι being its intensive (with the preposition in composition), and θραύω a shattering to minute fragments; but not a reduction to the constituent particles, like λύω) or disrupt, lacerate; by implication, to convulse (with spasms); figuratively, to give vent to joyful emotions:--break (forth), burst, rend, tear. - Verb - greek
- H8318 שֶׁרֶץ - 8318 שֶׁרֶץ - שֶׁרֶץ - - sherets - sheh'-rets - from שָׁרַץ; a swarm, i.e. active mass of minute animals; creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature). - Noun Masculine - heb