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minim

In music, a note value, half the duration of a semibreve. It is written as an empty white note-head with a stem. It is the basic unit of beat for the following metres: 2/2, 4/2, and cut time (alla breve).

In the UK, it is known as a minim.



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As I stood there beneath that tree--a tree which should have been part of a coal-bed countless ages since--and looked out across a sea teeming with frightful life--life which should have been fossil before God conceived of Adam--I would not have given a minim of stale beer for my chances of ever seeing my friends or the outside world again; yet then and there I swore to fight my way as far through this hideous land as circumstances would permit.
He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.
At once came forth whatever creeps the ground, Insect or Worme; those wav'd thir limber fans For wings, and smallest Lineaments exact In all the Liveries dect of Summers pride With spots of Gold and Purple, azure and green: These as a line thir long dimension drew, Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence involv'd Thir Snakie foulds, and added wings.
 
 
 
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