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A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

fic gravity. It is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute.

Of or pertaining to micrology; very minute; as, micrologic examination. -- Mi`cro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass. Circular, or Ring, micrometer, a metallic ring fixed in the foc…

An instrument for noting minute portions of time.

A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.

A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algæ, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.

a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye. Compound microscope, an instrument consisting of a combination of lenses such that the image formed by the lens or set of lenses nearest the object (called the objective) is magnified by anoth…

Able to see extremely minute objects. Why has not man a microscopic eye Pope.

By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.

pe arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.

A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.

One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.

A minute bloodsucking fly. [Local, U. S.]

A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.

To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.

coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.

ich, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.

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