1) Alcoholic drink 2) American jazz ensemble 3) Being on a very small scale 4) Diminutive 5) French word used in English 6) Illuminated manuscript 7) Infinitesimal 8) Insignificant 9) Kind of golf 10) Kind of poodle or golf 11) Like dollhouse furnishings 12) Little 13) Locket picture 14) Matchbox product
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1) Bantam 2) Little 3) Minute 4) Peewee 5) Pocket-size 6) Psize 7) Pygmy 8) Small 9) Teeny 10) Tiny 11) Toy 12) Wee
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a problem with no more than seven pieces on the board in the initial position.
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[alcohol] A miniature is a small bottle of a spirit, liqueur or other alcoholic beverage. Their contents, typically 50ml, are intended to comprise an individual serving. Miniatures may be used as gifts, samples, or for promotional purposes. In Northeast of the United States they are known as `Nips`. They are sometimes available in hotel min...
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[illuminated manuscript] The word miniature, derived from the Latin minium, red lead, is a picture in an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple decoration of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment. The generally small scale of the medieval pictures has led secondly to an etymological confusion...
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a small model representing a person, persons, a vehicle, or other pawn or actor to be manipulated during the combat simulation portion of the game. Sometimes these can be very elaborate (highly detailed metal sculptures, hand painted). Strictly speaking, only those that are three-dimensional representations are considered miniatures, but in some ci...
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• (v.) Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale. • (v. t.) To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale. • (v.) Lettering in red; rubric distinction. • (a.) Being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy. • (v.) Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manusc...
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A small scale replicated model of a person, place or thing that is used for special effects. Later the image is blown-up to a relative life-size image and added in a compositing process to live images (unless of course the entire film is animated). To accomplish the photography of miniatures, however, variable speed cameras and differently framed f...
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Used in this context to denote books below 2ins (or 5cm) high.
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A small picture not normally larger than 6 in in anyone direction. The greatest schools of miniature
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Postcards done as a novelty during the Golden Age. They were about 1/2 the size of the standard 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch postcards. They have stamp boxes and are often postally used. The most desirable are those by the Scandinavian artists or publisher John Winsch
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Min'i·a·ture noun [ Italian miniatura , from Latin miniare . See Miniate , v. , Minium .] 1. Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediæval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait. 2.
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A picture painted by hand in an illuminated manuscript. A small painting or portrait that can be held in the hand or worn as jewellery.
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adj] - being on a very small scale 2. [n] - painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) 3. [n] - copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size
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A miniature is a small painting, usually a portrait. Miniatures range from about three centimetres in height to as much as twenty-five centimetres and are painted in watercolour or gouache on vellum, enamel, ivory or, often, a playing card. In the West miniature painting emerged at the time of the Renaissance from the medieval practice of illuminat...
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noun painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
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adjective being on a very small scale; `a miniature camera`
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small in scale
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