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n air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key. Moore (Encyc. of Music). Natural day, the space of twenty-four hours. Chaucer. -- Natural fats, Natural gas, etc. See under Fat, Gas. etc. -- Natural Harmony (Mus.), the harmony of the triad or comm…

Having little or nothing. [Obs.] [Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman.

otive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennæ, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh. My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me. Milton.

A little cloud; a cloud. [Obs.] O light without nebule. Old Ballad.

a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs. A little cottage, like some poor man's nest. Spenser.

A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong. "The little nib or fructifying principle." Sir T. Browne.

To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits. Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep. Shak.

In a near relation in place, time, degree, etc.; within a little; almost. [Obs.] A cube and a sphere ... nighly of the same bigness. Locke.

A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.

Having little knots or lumps.

A person or thing of little or no account. [Colloq.]

ts, and which accordingly seems fixed and immovable in the sky. The star a (alpha) of the Little Bear, is our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1º 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.

A little or short note; a billet.

A little nucleus.

Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.

A little or young nymph. [Poetic] "The nymphets sporting there." Drayton.

A little eye; a minute simple eye found in many invertebrates.

In a peculiar manner; strangely; queerly; curiously. "A figure a little more oddly turned." Locke. A great black substance,... very oddly shaped. Swift.

A little or short ode.