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Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.

In a diminutive manner.

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

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. [Obs.] Shak.

or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.

e properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive. Gibbs.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.

A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.

A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

Diminutive of Dad. Dryden.

A genus of diminutive Shrubs, mostly evergreen, and with fragrant blossoms.

A diminutive tooth; a denticle.

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

Diminutively. [Obs.]

Indicating diminution; diminutive. "Diminutival forms" [of words]. Earle. -- n.

imal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.

A diminutive dwarf.

A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.