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To render delicate or dainty. [Obs.] Howell.

To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton.

Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.

A painter of miniatures.

A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.

A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.

A rifle adapted to minie balls.

To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.

A little darling; a favorite; a minion. [Obs.] Florio.

Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like.

Of, pertaining to, or having a character of, a minim or minimum; least; smallest; as, a minimal amount or value.

A trifle; a trinket; a token. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act or process of minimizing. Bentham.

To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum. Bentham.

The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to Ant: maximum.

, a thermometer for recording the lowest temperature since its last adjustment.

A being of the smallest size. [Obs.] Shak.

The act or business of making mines or of working them.

Minimum. [Obs.] Burton.

Small; delicate. [Obs.] "His minionette face." Walpole.