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xtract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc. Small beer, weak beer; (fig.) insignificant matters. "To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer." Shak.

That which is begun; a rudiment or element. Mighty things from small beginnings grow. Dryden.

A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death. A small part of what he left behind him. Pope.

al cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnit…

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

ame best befits thee." Milton. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small. Coleridge.

In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.

A small brass Venetian coin. [Obs.]

A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.

A small decorative object without practical utility.

A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub. [Prov. Eng.]

A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson.

A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.

Small articles of virtu, as jewelry, trinkets, etc.

A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.