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Found 7 hits - Term: small, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
small \small\, adv.
   1. in or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little;
      slightly. obs. "i wept but small." --chaucer. "it small
      avails my mood." --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. not loudly; faintly; timidly. obs. or humorous
      1913 webster

            you may speak as small as you will.   --shak.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
small \small\, n.
   1. the small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the
      leg or of the back.
      1913 webster

   2. pl. smallclothes. colloq. --hood. dickens.
      1913 webster

   3. pl. same as little go. see under little, a.
      1913 webster
see also:
little go little 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
small \small\ smaddl, a. compar. smaller
   smaddl"~er; superl. smallest. oe. small, as. smael;
   akin to d. smal narrow, os.  ohg. smal small, g. schmal
   narrow, dan.  sw. smal, goth. smals small, icel. smali small
   cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. gr. mh^lon a sheep or goat.
   1. having little size, compared with other things of the same
      kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large
      or extended in dimension; not great; not much;
      inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.
      1913 webster

            to compare
            great things with small.              --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or
      importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a
      small fault; a small business.
      1913 webster

   3. envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; --
      sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
      1913 webster

            a true delineation of the smallest man is capable of
            interesting the greatest man.         --carlyle.
      1913 webster

   4. not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short;
      as, after a small space. --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud. "a still,
      small voice." --1 kings xix. 12.
      1913 webster

   great and small,of all ranks or degrees; -- used especially
      of persons. "his quests, great and small." --chaucer.

   small arms, muskets, rifles, pistols, etc., in distinction
      from cannon.

   small beer. see under beer.

   small coal.
      a little coals of wood formerly used to light fires.
          --gay.
      b coal about the size of a hazelnut, separated from the
          coarser parts by screening.

   small craft naut., a vessel, or vessels in general, of a
      small size.

   small fruits. see under fruit.

   small hand, a certain size of paper. see under paper.

   small hours. see under hour.

   small letter. print., a lower-case letter. see
      lower-case, and capital letter, under capital, a.

   small piece, a scotch coin worth about 21/4d. sterling, or
      about 41/2cents.

   small register. see the note under 1st register, 7.

   small stuff naut., spun yarn, marline, and the smallest
      kinds of rope. --r. h. dana, jr.

   small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat.

   small wares com., various small textile articles, as
      tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. --m`culloch.
      1913 webster
see also:
smaller smallest great and small small arms small beer beer 
small coal small craft small fruits fruit small hand 
paper small hours hour small letter lower-case 
capital letter capital small piece small register register 
small stuff small talk small wares 
[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
small \small\, v. t.
   to make little or less. obs.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
small
     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: little ant: large, large
     2: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper
        with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a
        pocket-size country" syn: minor, modest, small-scale,
         pocket-size, pocket-sized
     3: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage";
        "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people";
        "small beginnings" syn: humble, low, lowly, modest
     4: not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small
        children" syn: little
     5: too small to be seen except under a microscope syn: microscopic,
         microscopical ant: macroscopic
     6: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest
        salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way"
        syn: modest
     7: of a voice faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
        syn: little
     8: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or
        scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in
        between" syn: smalla
     9: made to seem smaller or less especially in worth; "her
        comments made me feel small" syn: belittled, diminished
     10: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
         written all in minuscule letters" syn: little, minuscule
     11: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small
         misty rain"
     n 1: the slender part of the back
     2: a garment size for a small person
     adv : on a small scale; "think small" ant: big
see also:
little large minor modest small-scale pocket-size 
pocket-sized humble low lowly microscopic 
microscopical macroscopic smalla belittled diminished 
minuscule big 
[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
291 moby thesaurus words for "small":
   lenten, lilliputian, spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, airy,
   arrant, ascetic, atrocious, attenuate, attenuated, austere,
   authoritarian, baby, back-burner, bantam, base, beggarly, bigot,
   bigoted, borne, boyish, cheap, cheesy, close, closed, commonplace,
   constricted, contemptible, cramped, creedbound, crummy, cursory,
   deaf, deaf to reason, debased, deficient, degraded, delicate,
   depraved, depthless, despicable, diaphanous, diluted, diminished,
   diminutive, dinky, dirty, disgusting, dispensable, dwarfed,
   dwarfish, elfin, ethereal, everyday, execrable, exiguous,
   fanatical, few, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flagrant, flat, flimsy,
   footling, foul, frail, frugal, fulsome, gauzy, girlish, gossamer,
   gracile, grave, gross, grudging, half-pint, heinous, hidebound,
   homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest,
   illiberal, immaterial, immature, imperfect, impoverished,
   in a nutshell, in miniature, in the small, inadequate,
   inappreciable, incompetent, inconsequential, inconsiderable,
   inessential, inferior, inglorious, innocuous, insignificant,
   insubstantial, insufficient, insular, irrelevant, jejune,
   knee-high, lacy, lean, least, lesser, light, limited, little,
   little-minded, low, low-down, lowest, lowliest, lowly, lumpen,
   maladroit, mangy, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, mean-minded,
   mean-spirited, measly, mediocre, midget, mingy, mini, miniature,
   minor, minuscule, minute, miserable, miserly, misty, modest,
   monkey, monstrous, mundane, narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded,
   narrow-souled, narrow-spirited, nearsighted, nefarious, negligible,
   niggardly, no great shakes, nonessential, not comparable,
   not in it, not vital, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, one-horse,
   out of it, paltry, papery, parochial, parsimonious, peewee, petit,
   petite, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pindling,
   pint-sized, plain, pocket-sized, poky, poor, provincial, puny,
   purblind, rank, rare, rarefied, reduced, reptilian, scabby, scant,
   scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy,
   secondary, selfish, shabby, shallow, shoddy, short, shortsighted,
   simple, skimp, skimpy, skin-deep, slender, slenderish, slight,
   slight-made, slightly, slim, slimmish, slinky, small-minded,
   small-scale, smallish, smally, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation,
   stingy, stinted, stinting, straitened, straitlaced, stuffy,
   stunted, subsistence, subtle, superficial, svelte, sylphlike,
   teachable, technical, teeny, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set,
   thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, tight, tight-fisted, tiny,
   trifling, trivial, two-by-four, two-dimensional, uncatholic,
   uncharitable, unchivalrous, undersized, undistinguished,
   unessential, ungenerous, unimaginative, unimportant, unimpressive,
   uninspired, unliberal, unmentionable, unnoteworthy, unnourishing,
   unnutritious, unoriginal, unpretentious, unprofound,
   unsatisfactory, unskillful, vague, vile, wasp-waisted, watered,
   watered-down, watery, weak, wee, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy,
   wretched, young




[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
small
     
        1. functional, lazy, untyped.
     
        "small - a small interactive functional system",
        l. augustsson, tr 28, u goteborg and chalmers u, 1986.
     
        2. a toy language used to illustrate denotational
        semantics.
     
        "the denotational description of programming languages",
        m.j.c. gordon, springer 1979.
     
     
see also:
toy language denotational semantics 

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