Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: minister – minute
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minister (-ed), v. [see minister, n.] (webplay: apprenticed).
- Attend; serve.
- Serve; afford; supply.
ministry, n. [ME < Fr. < L.] (webplay: world).
- Office; duties.
- Service; aid.
minnow (-s), n. [Fr. menu, small.]
Very small fish; [fig.] insignificant political rival.
minor, adj. [L. comp. of minus.] (webplay: between, bulk, less, lower, opposed, single, smaller).
- Lesser; smaller in size.
- Insignificant; unimportant; harmless.
- Subordinate; secondary; lesser in quantity or quality; not principal.
- Tiny; miniature; diminutive; [fig.] mournful; haunting; plaintive; poignant sounding; in a musical key that has intervals lower by one semitone; [word play on “Minority”] having members smaller than birds; having fewer members than other groups of creatures; [word play on “Minorite”] Franciscan; having to do with the minor friars of the monastic order of St. Francis in the Catholic Church; [metaphor] close to nature; pertaining to a group of humming crickets.
minor, n. [L.] (webplay: bird).
Chant; song; strain; hymn tune; religious melody; piece of sacred music in a minor key; [metaphor] ave; greeting; hello; (see Luke 1:28) [fig.] chirp; peep; song of a Minorca, a beautiful bird of the East Indies.
mint (-s), n. [OE mynet, money, stamped coin.] (webplay: word).
- Something valuable; [fig.] leaves; petals.
- Attempts; intentions.
mint (-ed), v. [see mint, n.] (webplay: coin, mine).
- Forge; fabricate; make money.
- Make official by stamping metal.
minuet (-s), n. [Fr. meneut, from menu, small.]
Slow, graceful dance in triple measure for two dancers; music for such a type of dance.
minute (-r, -st), adj. [Fr. menu, small < L.] (webplay: air, attention, circle, fineness, heaven, hour, men, measure, small, thunder, time).
- Tiny; minuscule; small; not spacious; not large in size.
- Low; close to the earth.
minute (-s), n. [L. minitum, a small portion.] (webplay: hour, small, space, time).
- Sixty seconds; one sixtieth of an hour.
- [Fig.] short space of time.