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Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.

minute and very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like, esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.

A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.

A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.

unconnected; detached; fragmentary; hence, occasional; inconsiderable; as, odd jobs; odd minutes; odd trifles.

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 (Oïdium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.

e, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oöphore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.

ess amphibians having a slender, wormlike body with regular annulations, and usually with minute scales imbedded in the skin. The limbs are rudimentary or wanting. It includes the cæcilians. Called also Gymnophiona and Ophidobatrachia.

Orange grass (Bot.), an inconspicuous annual American plant (Hypericum Sarothra), having minute, deep yellow flowers. -- Orange oil (Chem.), an oily, terpenelike substance obtained from orange rind, and distinct from neroli oil, which is obtained from the flowers. -- Orange pekoe, a kind of black tea. -- Orange pip…

A genus of minute living Foraminifera having a globular shell.

he ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver. Ure.

A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillæ of the tongue.

Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.

A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.

A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust. The small size of atoms which unite To make the smallest particle of light. Blackmore.

Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.

A minute description; a detailed statement. [R.]

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.