Minot
a city of North Dakota, the county-seat of Ward co., situated on the Mouse river, 200 miles W. N. W. of Grand Forks, and on the Great Northern, the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie railroads. It contains the State Normal School, a public library, court house, and Federal buildings. It is the center of a mining and milling region. The mines are of lignite coal.
Pop. (1910) 6,188; (1920) 10,476.
MINOTAUR (min'-), in Greek mythol. ogy, a monster half man and half bull, said to have been the son of Pasiphae, wife of Minos, King of Crete, by a bull; hence the term Minotaur. Minos shut him up in the labyrinth of Dædalus, feeding him with crimina and afterward with youths and maidens sent from Athens. Theseus, by the assistance of Ariadne, succeeded in destroying him.