Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MI'NOR, n.

1. A person of either sex under age; one who under the authority of his parents or guardians, or who is not permitted by law to make contracts and manage his own property. By the laws of Great Britain and of the United States, persons are minors till they are twenty one years of age.
2. In logic, the second proposition of a regular syllogism; as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness. To take money from another by gaming, or reputation by seduction, are acts of injustice. Therefore the taking of money from another by gaming, or reputation by seduction, partakes of meanness.
3. A Minorite, a Franciscan friar.
4. A beautiful bird of the East Indies. Dict. Nat. Hist.