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A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dul…

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.

A chicken; -- used as a diminutive or pet name, especially in calling fowls.

A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it…

A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, an…

A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slende…

Small; diminished; diminutive.

That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance.

To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, i…

To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials…

Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the…

Of very small size; diminutive; dwarfed.

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…

Any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. They have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in the…