minim
Example Sentences
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What they meant was that Meredith Willson, 63, was a missed minim who didn't belong on the council.
From Time Magazine Archive
And from without the schools many cry out and complain: for truth is strong meat, and the weakling stomach turns against it, except in minim doses smothered in treacle.
From A Child of the Jago by Arthur Morrison
Each tablet contains licorice, 2 grains; balsam tolu, 1/10 grain; oil of anise, 1/20 minim; oil of tar, 1/60 minim; oleo-resin of cubebs, 1/60 minim; fluid extract of chuchula, 1/10 minim.
From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
A little girl of 3 years, bitten by a tiger snake, receives three minim injections every half-hour, and after three of them, whilst in a state of complete coma, gets convulsions.
From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by A. Mueller
Dr. Jones from a small case vial dropped a single minim into a teaspoon and wiped it off upon her tongue.
From Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman
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