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The quality or state of being small.

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

Scantiness; smallness; thinness. [R.] Boyle.

Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness. [R.] Paley.

The state of being few; smallness of number; paucity. Shak.

Little masters, certain German engravers of the 16th century, so called from the extreme smallness of their prints. -- Master in chancery, an officer of courts of equity, who acts as an assistant to the chancellor or judge, by inquiring into various matters referred to him, and reporting thereon to the court. -- Mas…

An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.

Moderateness; smallness; meanness. [Obs.]

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward things." Barrow.

The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise a mutiny at Naples. Addison. Praise . . . owes its value to its scarcity…