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Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance; a little child. He sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature. Luke xix. 3.

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.

The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.

To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.

One who performs little though professing much. [Colloq.] Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.

tention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind. "Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.

ize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

Resembling little heaps.

exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. Wordsworth. Hence, in specific uses:

To adorn. [Obs.] Congealed little drops which do the morn adore. Spenser.

Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

Positive; dogmatic. [Obs.] J. Taylor. Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito. Berkeley.

Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

Exaggerated representation. By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison.

In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding.

in or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble. When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish. Richardson.

ndisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

Brisk; joyously active; lively. 'T were well if we were a little more alacrious. Hammond.