5. Small in force or efficiency; not strong; weak; slight;
inconsiderable; as, little attention or exertion;little effort; little
care or diligence.
By sad experiment I know How little weight my words with thee can
find.
Milton.
6. Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted;
mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
The long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise,
Because their natures are little.
Tennyson.
Little chief. (Zoöl.) See Chief hare. -- 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 ones, young children.
The men, and the women, and the little ones.
Deut. ii. 34.
Lit"tle, n. 1. That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space,
or the like.
Much was in little writ.
Dryden.
There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear
ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance.
Locke.