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iminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river. To compare Great things with small. Milton.

A biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.

A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.

Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.

The quality or state of being small.

A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar…

See Small, n., 2, 3.

A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. [R.] Ascham.

To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

In a baptismal manner.

In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from…

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amountin…

A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. Dunglison.

d and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.