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A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender. My noble Neophite, my little grammaticaster. B. Jonson.

A little grain a small particle; a pellet.

Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length.

A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.

Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.

A little pig. [Written also grise.] [Scot.]

A little pig. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

ands, when one can not see. We grope for the wall like the blind. Is. lix. 10. To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.

Anything very small, or of little value. [R.]

The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun. The art of gunning was but little practiced. Goldsmith.

A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden.

A little hook.

The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety. Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate. Ld. Lytton.

t it when fainting with heat. Dr. Prior. -- Jumping hare. (Zoöl.) See under Jumping. -- Little chief hare, or Crying hare. (Zoöl.) See Chief hare. -- Sea hare. (Zoöl.) See Aplysia.

Having little or nothing. [Obs.] Gower.

nter the naval service at the lowest grade. [Cant] -- To freshen the hawse, to veer out a little more cable and bring the chafe and strain on another part.

standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Cratægus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds Shak.

r fodder. Make hay while the sun shines. Camden. Hay may be dried too much as well as too little. C. L. Flint. Hay cap, a canvas covering for a haycock. -- Hay fever (Med.), nasal catarrh accompanied with fever, and sometimes with paroxysms of dyspnoea, to which some persons are subject in the spring and summer season…

Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson. Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble.

most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison.