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A small dumb keyboard used by pianists for exercising the fingers; -- called also dumb piano.

To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase. Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt. Barrow.

Small; diminished; diminutive. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Below the average size; very small; little.

The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.

ight indentation on any surface. The garden pool's dark surface . . . Breaks into dimples small and bright. Wordsworth.

Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimply pool. Thomson.

A ship's smallest boat.

A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

A small grebe; the dabchick.

Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

or line of metal, which is in a plane passing through the axis of the gun, always makes a small angle with the axis. Eng. Cys.

Occurring in small portions scattered through some other substance.

sions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them. Acts xv. 2. Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. Dryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. Robynson (More's Utopia).

dopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement. The dissent of no small number [of peers] is frequently recorded. Hallam.

To flow gently, or in a small stream. The Euphrates distilleth out of the mountains of Armenia. Sir W. Raleigh.

d thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two "turned commas" ("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition. A spacious table in the center, and a variety of smaller dittos in the corners. Dickens.

A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife.

A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc.

A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.