- Extremely small - Infinitesimal - Teeny-weeny - Any very small, minute object. - A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor
uncial; a manuscript written in such letters. - Of the size and style of minuscules; written in
minuscules.
- Extremely or unusually small - Very small - Below the average size; very small; little. - Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word. - Tending to diminish. - Something of very small size or value; an insignificant
thing. - A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young
object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as,
gosling, eaglet, lambkin.
- Sticky substance - An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of
the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it.
When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds
which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. - To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to
insnare.