Vocabulary : Minoration to Minstrel

Minoration : A diminution.
Minoress : See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.
Minorite : A Franciscan friar.
Minorities : of Minority
Minority : The state of being a minor, or under age. ;; State of being less or small. ;; The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.

Minos : A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
Minotaur : A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.
Minow : See Minnow.
Minster : A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
Minstrel : In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.

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