Atomies
an atom; mote.
a small creature; pygmy.
a skeleton.
Historical Examples
The surgeons are atomies and pettifoggers, who kill more than they cure.
Character Writings of the 17th Century Various
Bring a good glass into the service, and you see a whole cloud of these atomies.
The Sea Jules Michelet
noun (archaic) (pl) -mies
an atom or minute particle
a minute creature
noun (pl) -mies
an obsolete word for skeleton
n.
1590s, “atoms,” also “diminutive beings,” from atomy, from Latin atomi, plural of atomus (see atom), but taken as a singular in English and re-pluralized in the native way. Perhaps also in some cases a plural of atomy (from misdivision of anatomy).
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