[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

little \lit"tle\ li^t"t'l, a. the regular comparative and
   superlative of this word, littler and littlest, are often
   used as comparatives of the sense small; but in the sense
   few, less, or, rarely, lesser is the proper comparative and
   least is the superlative. see lesser. the regular form,
   littlest, occurs also in some of the english provinces, and
   occasionally in colloquial language. " where love is great,
   the littlest doubts are fear." --shak. oe. litel, lutel,
   as. l=ytel, limactel, l=yt; akin to os. littil, d.
   luttel, lg. l"utt, ohg. luzzil, mhg. l"utzel; and perh.
   to as. lytig deceitful, lot deceit, goth. liuts deceitful,
   lut=on to deceive; cf. also icel. limactill little, sw.
   liten, dan. liden, lille, goth. leitils, which appear to have
   a different root vowel.
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            he sought to see jesus who he was; and could not for
            the press, because he was little of stature. --luke
                                                  xix. 3.
      1913 webster

   2. short in duration; brief; as, a little sleep.
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            best him enough: after a little time,
            i'll beat him too.                    --shak.
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   3. small in quantity or amount; not much; as, a little food;
      a little air or water.
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            conceited of their little wisdoms, and doting upon
            their own fancies.                    --barrow.
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   4. small in dignity, power, or importance; not great;
      insignificant; contemptible.
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            when thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou
            not made the head of the tribes?      --i sam. xv.
                                                  17.
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   5. small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight;
      inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little
      effort; little care or diligence.
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            by sad experiment i know
            how little weight my words with thee can find.
                                                  --milton.
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   6. small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow;
      contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
      1913 webster

            the long-necked geese of the world that are ever
            hissing dispraise,
            because their natures are little.     --tennyson.
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   little chief. zool. see chief hare.

   little englander, an englishman opposed to territorial
      expansion of the british empire. see antiimperialism,
      above. hence:

   little englandism.

   little finger, the fourth and smallest finger of the hand.
      

   little go eng. universities, a public examination about
      the middle of the course, which is less strict and
      important than the final one; -- called also smalls. cf.
      great go, under great. --thackeray.

   little hours r. c. ch., the offices of prime, tierce,
      sext, and nones. vespers and compline are sometimes
      included.

   little-neck clam, or little neck zool., the quahog, or
      round clam.

   little ones, young children.
      1913 webster

            the men, and the women, and the little ones. --deut.
                                                  ii. 34.
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   little peach, a disease of peaches in which the fruit is
      much dwarfed, and the leaves grow small and thin. the
      cause is not known.

   little rhod"y, rhode island; -- a nickname alluding to its
      small size. it is the smallest state of the united states.
      

   little sisters of the poor r. c. ch., an order of women
      who care for old men and women and infirm poor, for whom
      special houses are built. it was established at st.
      servan, britany, france, in 1840, by the abb'e le
      pailleur.

   little slam bridge whist, the winning of 12 out of the 13
      tricks. it counts 20 points on the honor score. contrasted
      with grand slam.
      webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
lesser big large little chief chief hare little englander 
antiimperialism little englandism little finger little go smalls 
great go great little hours little-neck clam little neck 
little ones little peach little rhod"y little sisters of the poor little slam 
grand slam 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

little \lit"tle\, adv.
   in a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat;
   -- often with a preceding it. " the poor sleep little."
   --otway.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

little \lit"tle\, n.
   1. that which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or
      the like.
      1913 webster

            much was in little writ.              --dryden.
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            there are many expressions, which carrying with them
            no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my
            ignorance.                            --locke.
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   2. a small degree or scale; miniature. " his picture in
      little." --shak.
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            a little, to or in a small degree; to a limited
            extent; somewhat; for a short time. " stay a
            little." --shak.
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            the painter flattered her a little.   --shak.
      

   by little and little, or little by little, by slow
      degrees; piecemeal; gradually.
      1913 webster
see also:
by little and little little by little 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

little
     adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude
            or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house";
            "a small car"; "a little or small group"; "a small
            voice" syn: small ant: large, large
     2: quantifier used with mass nouns small in quantity or
        degree; not much or almost none or with `a' at least
        some; "little rain fell in may"; "gave it little thought";
        "little hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still
        have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "a little
        time is left" syn: littlea ant: mucha
     3: of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the
        country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away"
        syn: brief
     4: not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small
        children" syn: small
     5: informal terms small and of little importance; "a fiddling
        sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
        lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at
        war"; "a little or small matter"; "mickey mouse
        regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited
        to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a
        police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it
        seems to be a picayune infraction" syn: fiddling, footling,
         lilliputian, mickey mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling,
         petty, picayune, trivial
     6: of a voice faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
        syn: small
     7: younger brother or sister; "little brother" syn: littlea,
         younger ant: biga
     8: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
        written all in minuscule letters" syn: minuscule, small
     9: small in a way that arouses feelings of tenderness or its
        opposite depending on the context; "a nice little job";
        "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a
        sweet little deal"; "i'm tired of your petty little
        schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little
        situation"
     n : a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they
         gave him"
     adv : not much; "he talked little about his family"
see also:
small large littlea mucha brief fiddling 
footling lilliputian mickey mouse niggling piddling 
piffling petty picayune trivial younger 
biga minuscule 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

337 moby thesaurus words for "little":
   lilliputian, a bit, a breath, a little, abject, abominable, ace,
   arrant, atom, atrocious, authoritarian, baby, back-burner, bantam,
   barely, base, beggarly, bigot, bigoted, bit, borne, bowshot, brief,
   brief span, by a hair, by an ace, casual, cheap, cheesy,
   close quarters, close range, closed, collateral, compact,
   compendious, concise, constricted, contemptible, crack, cramped,
   creedbound, crumb, crummy, cursory, curt, curtal, curtate, dab,
   deaf, deaf to reason, debased, decurtate, deficient, degraded,
   depraved, depthless, despicable, diminutive, dinky, dirty,
   disgusting, dispensable, dole, dollop, dot, dram, dribble, driblet,
   dwarf, earreach, earshot, elfin, ever so little, execrable,
   exiguous, exiguously, faintly, fanatical, farthing, feebly, few,
   flagrant, fleck, flyspeck, footling, fortuitous, foul, fragment,
   fulsome, gobbet, grain, granule, grave, groat, gross, gunshot,
   hair, hair space, hairbreadth, hairsbreadth, half-pint, handful,
   hardly, hardly any, hardly ever, heinous, hidebound, illiberal,
   immaterial, imperfect, imperfectly, in a nutshell, in miniature,
   in the small, inadequate, inappreciable, inappreciably, inch,
   incidental, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsequentially,
   inconsiderable, ineffectual, inessential, inferior, infinitesimal,
   infrequently, insignificant, insignificantly, instant,
   instantaneous, insufficient, insular, iota, irrelevant, itsy-bitsy,
   itty-bitty, jot, just a bit, knee-high, light, lightly, limited,
   little bit, little ways, little while, little-minded, low,
   low-down, lumpen, maladroit, mangy, meager, meagerly, mean,
   mean-minded, mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, microscopic, midget,
   mingy, mini, miniature, minim, minimally, minimum, minor,
   minuscule, minute, minutely, minutiae, miserable, mite, modicum,
   molecule, moment, monkey, monstrous, mote, narrow, narrow-hearted,
   narrow-minded, narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted,
   nefarious, negligible, negligibly, niggard, niggardly, no,
   no great shakes, no time, nonessential, not any, not comparable,
   not enough, not hardly, not in it, not much, not vital, nutshell,
   obnoxious, odious, one-horse, only just, ounce, out of it,
   pair of winks, paltry, parochial, particle, pebble, petit, petite,
   petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pinch, pindling, pint-sized,
   pistol shot, pittance, point, poky, poor, potty, provincial, puny,
   purblind, pygmy, rank, rarely, reptilian, scabby, scant, scantily,
   scanty, scarcely, scrap, scrubby, scruffy, scruple, scummy, scurvy,
   secondary, seldom, self-centered, selfish, set, shabby, shallow,
   shoddy, shoestring, short, short and sweet, short distance,
   short piece, short spell, short time, short way, shortsighted,
   skimpy, skin-deep, slight, slightly, small, small space,
   small-beer, small-minded, smallish, smally, smidgen, smidgin,
   smitch, span, sparse, speck, spitting distance, spoonful, spot,
   spurt, squalid, step, stingy, straitlaced, stuffy, subordinate,
   subsidiary, succinct, summary, superficial, synoptic,
   tant soit peu, taste, technical, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny,
   thimbleful, tiny, tiny bit, tittle, toy, transient, trifling,
   trifling amount, triflingly, trivia, trivial, two shakes,
   two-by-four, uncatholic, uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized,
   unessential, unfrequently, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant,
   unimpressive, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unoften,
   unskillful, vile, weakly, wee, whit, wretched, young, youthful

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

little
     
        a typeless language used to produce machine-independent
        software.  little has been used to implement setl.
     
        "guide to the little language", d. shields, little newsletter
        33, courant inst aug 1977.
     
     

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

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  zip codes: 41346

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