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Force; strength; power. [Obs.] A petty enterprise of small enforce. Milton.

Vanishing from notice; imperceptible. The difference between right and wrong, is some petty cases, is almost evanescent. Wollaston.

One who fakes something, as a thief, a peddler of petty things, a workman who dresses things up, etc. [Slang]

pean garden warbler (Sylvia, or Currica, hortensis); -- called also beccafico and greater pettychaps.

By pilfering or petty stealing.

A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.

A petty fop. Landor.

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

A petty grammarian. [R] Tooke.

A petty constable. [Eng.]

To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).

To deal in small articles, or in petty bargains. Swift.

To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work. Authors of all work, to job for the season. Moore.

Clownish; booorish. [Obs.] "A petty kernish prince." Milton.

A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack. A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap. Shak.

The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak.

Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.

One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke.

nt; also, becoming behavior; well- bred carriage and address. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Emerson.

Attention to petty items or differences. W. Taylor.