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schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

To make clear; to free from obscurity. [Obs.] "To declare this a little." Boyle.

f; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend -- any every foe. Pope. Among boys little tenderness is shown to personal defects. Macaulay.

of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime. The delinquencies of the little commonwealth would be represented in the most glaring colors. Motley.

y ones. Dan. iv. 17. He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. Locke.

Indented; impressed with little hollows.

Furnished with denticles; notched into little toothlike projections; as, a denticulate leaf of calyx. -- Den*tic"u*late*ly, adv.

f the truth of the congregation. Tyndale. The conclusion . . . that our happiness depends little on political institutions, and much on the temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay. Heaven forming each on other to depend. Pope.

To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to dep…

he surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

m. If we did derogate from them whom their industry hath made great. Hooker. It derogates little from his fortitude, while it adds infinitely to the honor of his humanity. Burke.

s of a besotted woman. Hallam. A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! Macaulay.

t of a fleet sent from the main body on special service. Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments. Bancroft.

omposition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi- or di-, although little used.

A little devil. [R.] Barham.

A little devil; a devilet.

To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew. The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewed them so. A. B. Saxton.

Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together. [Obs.]

Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. Watts.

A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.