All 3 Uses of
minute
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- PUCK I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes.†
Scene 2.1 *
- Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence; Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds; Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings, To make my small elves coats; and some keep back The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.†
Scene 2.2
- No: I do repent The tedious minutes I with her have spent.†
Scene 2.2
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.