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ich belong particularly to the lower orders of society. Restless, jealous, ambitious, and little minds are ever forming cabals. Factions belong especially to free governments, and are raised by busy and turbulent spirits for selfish porposes". Crabb.

A little cable less than ten inches in circumference.

A congeries of little stony knots found in the pulp of the pear and other fruits.

A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

A little can or cup. "And let me the canakin clink." Shak.

To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework. [Obs.] A little obscure place canceled in with iron work is the pillar or stump at which . . . our Savior was scourged. Evelyn.

posed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

A song; esp. a little song or hymn. [Obs.] Bacon.

A small portion; a division; a compartment. That little canton of land called the "English pale" Davies. There is another piece of Holbein's, . . . in which, in six several cantons, the several parts of our Savior's passion are represented. Bp. Burnet.

prightly; lively; merry. "The canty dame." Wordsworth [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Contented with little, and canty with mair. Burns.

Having the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, as the sturgeon and the sharks.

mall chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. Shak.

o or more persons, usually for twenty-one points. Great cassino, the ten of diamonds. -- Little cassino, the two of spades.

Consisting of little links or chains.

One who caters. The little fowls in the air have God for Their provider and caterer. Shelton.

A little cat; a kitten. "Cat nor catling." Drummond.

Full of little cavities; as, cavernulous metal. Black.

Bearing or producing little cells.

The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce.