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The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. A mint of phrases in his brain. Shak.

A sauce of vinegar and sugar flavored with spearmint leaves.

The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively.

The coin, or other production, made in a mint. Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage. Sterling.

One who mints.

One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.

The number from which another number is to be subtracted.

A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.

A small kind of printing type; minion.

Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign (Math.), the sign [-] denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative.

Any very small, minute object.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, minutes. [Obs.] Fuller.

The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer.

A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.

In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.

A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.

The quality of being minute.

A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.

The mink; -- called also minx otter. [Obs.]