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A hundredth part. The neglect of a few centesimals. Arbuthnot.

arcoal drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with charcoal. See Charcoal, 2. Until within a few years this material has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it. -- Charcoal point, a carbon pencil prepared for use un an electric light apparatus.…

as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. Locke.

cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point.

ing the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.

The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delay…

e of perplexity; to make perspicuous. Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear. Prior.

The crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow. [Obs.] He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak.

A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.

singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation. [Colloq.] A few of us old codgers met at the fireside. Emerson.

on. They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon.

f the "commune", the general mass of the inhabitants, against the "prudhommes" or "wiser" few. J. R. Green.

mate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely. With but comparatively few exceptions. Prescott.

A disposition to yield to others; complaisance. A man of few words and of great compliance. Clarendon.

the substance of; to constitute. Their borrowed gold composed The calf in Oreb. Milton. A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions. I. Watts.

To comprehend; to include. Comprise much matter in few words. Hocker. Friendship does two souls in one comprise. Roscommon.

secret place; a retreat frem observation. The cleft tree Offers its kind concealment to a few. Thomson.

Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts.

o controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell.

knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden.