minion

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An obsequious follower or dependent; a sycophant.
• noun A subordinate official, especially a servile one.
• noun One who is highly esteemed or favored; a darling.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An obsolete variant of minium.
• noun One who or that which is beloved; a favorite; a darling.
• noun An intriguing favorite; one who gains grace by vile or unworthy means; a servile creature.
• noun Hence A pert or saucy girl or woman; one who is too bold or forward; a minx.
• noun A small printing-type, about 10½ lines to the inch, intermediate between the sizes nonpareil (smaller) and brevier (larger).
• noun A type of cannon in use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
• Fine; trim; dainty; delicate.
• noun The sittings of ironstone after calcination at the iron-furnaces.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete A loved one; one highly esteemed and favored; -- in a good sense.
• noun An obsequious or servile dependent or agent of another; a fawning favorite.
• noun (Print.) A small kind of type, in size between brevier and nonpareil.
• noun obsolete An ancient form of ordnance, the caliber of which was about three inches.
• adjective obsolete Fine; trim; dainty.
• noun obsolete Minimum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
• noun A sycophantic follower
• adjective Favoured, beloved; "pet".

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a servile or fawning dependant