minningdaył (miningda)

[ME. minnyngday.] The anniversary of a death, on which the deceased was had in special remembrance, and special offices were said for his soul. See a year's mind, under mind11. All the day and night after the Buriall they vse to have exce ive ringinge for ye dead, as also at the twel-monthes day after, which they call a minninge - day. Chetham Misc., V. xv. (N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 448.) 3778 [Local, Eng.] mino rate minnis (min'is), n. [Cf. minnow.] The stickle mino2 (mi'nō), n. A variant of mina2 . back. [Loo minnow (min'ō), n. [Formerly also minow, minoe, menow, etc.; also dial. minny, minnie (cf. equiv. dial. minim , minnan , mennam, men- nom , appar. conformed to L. minimus , least: see minim ); menow , a minnow, appar. men a ); po ibly from the root of min2, le , with ME. term. -ow due to con- fusion with some other word, perhaps OF. menu , small; cf. ME. menust, small fish, menusia ), small fish collectively, minutus , small: see menuse2 .] 1. The small- est of the British cyprinoid fishes, Phoxinus minor (minor), a. and n. [ , me- nour, mineur = Sp. Pg. men or = It. minore , minor (neut. minus ), le , com- par. (with superl. minimus , least: see minim, minimum , etc.) a ociated with adj. parvus , small; = AS. min = OS. minniro , etc., le : see min2.] I. a . 1. Smaller (than the other); le ; le er: applied definitively to one of two units or parts, and opposed to major or greater : as, the minor axis of an ellipse; the minor premise of a syllogism; the minor part of an estate. Common English Minnow (Phoxinus lav is). aphya or lævis. Artificial minnows are used by anglers for trolling, spinning, or casting, and are made of metal, gla , and rubber, gilded, silvered, or painted attractively. Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? Shak ., Cor., iii. 1. 89. 2. In the United States, one of many different fishes of small size. (a) Any cyprinoid of the genus Phoxinus, of which there are several species, from 14 to 3 inches long, in the Mi i ippi basin and westward, as P. neogœus, P. flammeus, P. phlegethontis. This is the correct use of minnow, though in popular speech it extends to various other little cyprinoids, also loosely called roach, dace, shiner, etc. Among these may be mentioned the red minnows of the genus Chrosomus, as C. erythrogas ter, one of the prettiest of all, 2 or 3 inches long; the silvery minnow, Hybognathus nuchal is, and others of this genus; the black-headed minnow or fathead, Pimephales promelas; the blunt-nosed minnow, Hyborhynchus no lat us; the Texan hard mouth minnow, Cochlognathus or nat us; the bull-headed and straw-colored minnows, Cliola taurocephalus and C. str a mine a; the spotted-tail, C. stig maturus, and more than 60 other kinds of Cliola; about 50 shiners of the genus Minnilus; various species of the genera Rhinichthys, Ceratichthys, Apocope, Couesius, etc. These abound in fresh waters of the United States, and minnow is the usual name of all those which have not more particular designations. (b) One of numerous small cyprinodont fishes, otherwise known as killifishes and mummy chogs, and more fully called top -minnows, as Zygonectes not at us and many others of this genus. The most abundant of these is Fundulus hetero clit us, found in brackish waters from Maine to Mexico, and sometimes specified as salt - water minnow. F. diaphanus is the spring minnow. (c) Any American member of the family Um bride and genus Umbra or Melanura, as U. or M. limi, more fully called mud - minnow, 4 inches long, found from New England to Minnesota and South Carolina, often in mere mud-holes which would hardly be expected to lodge any fish. It is closely related to U. crameri of Austria. (d) One of various small viviparous perches or embiotocoid fishes of California, chiefly of salt water, as the spa rad a, Micrometrus or Cyma to gaster aggregatus. (e) One of several small suckers or catostomoid fishes: a loose use. minnow-harne (min'ō-här"nes), n. An artificial bait used for trolling to which a minnow can be attached.