minute jack (minitjak)

A jack of the clock-house, or a figure which strikes the bell in a clock: used in the following pa age, probably, in the sense of 'time-server,' 'a person whose friendship changes with changes of the IMG:content-0690.png:[blocks in formation] minutely1 (mi-nūt'li), adv. [ Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach. Shak., Macbeth, v. 2. 18. IMG:content-0691.png:[blocks in formation] μείων, le , + όρνις, a bird.] A genus of subfo il din ornithic birds of New Zealand, of the family Dinornithida, including two species separated from the genus Dinornis by Julius Haast in 1874. Also Me i on ornis. miophylly (mi'ō-fil-i), n. [ organs having never started to grow. Miophylу occurs also in the calyx, corolla, andræcium, and gynæcium. Also spelled meiophylly. miosis (mi-ō'sis), n. [NL., μείωσις , a le en- ing, μειοῦν , le en, μείων , le , irreg. compar. of μικρός , small, or ὀλίγος, few.] Diminution. Specifically-(a) In rhet .: (1) A figure by which a thing is represented as le than it really is, as in belittling an op- ponent's statement, affecting to scorn an accusation, etc. (2) Understatement so as to intensify; especially, expres- sion by negation of the opposite; litotes. (b) In pathol., that period of a disease in which the symptoms begin to diminish. Also meiosis. moste miostemonous (mi-ō-stem'ō-nus), a. [ while, myntwhile; ute's time; a moment. Ysekeles [icicles) in eueses, thorw hete of the sonne, Melteth in a mynut - while to myst and to watre. Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 228. A guard of chosen shot I had That walked about me every minute while. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 4. 54. minutia (mi-nū'shi-ä), n.; pl. minutiæ (-e). [= F. minutie = Sp. Pg. minucia = It. minuzia, I can see the precise and distinguishing marks of national characters more in these nonsensical minutice than in the most important matters of state. IMG:content-0692.png:[blocks in formation] More than once I have ventured, in print, an expre ion like " minutiose investigations," which seems to me to be not only unexceptionable, but much needed. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 168.