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Full many a year his hateful head had been 
For tribute paid, nor fince in Cambria feen : 
The lad of all the litter ’fcap’d by chance. 
And from Geneva fird infefted France. Dryden. 
A birth of animals: 
Fruitful as the fow that carry’d 
The thirty pigs at one large litter farrow’d. Dryden. 
Any number of things thrown fluttifhly about: 
Strephon, who found the room was void, 
Stole in, and took a ftriCt furvey 
Of all the litter as it lay. Swift, 
To LIT'TER, v. a. To bring forth : ufed of beads, or 
of human beings in abhorrence or contempt.—We might 
conceive that dogs were created blind, becaufe we obferve 
they were littered fo with us. Brown. —The whelps of bears 
are, at fird littering , without all form or fad ion. Hakewill 
on Providence. —My father named me Autolycus, being lit¬ 
tered under Mercury, who, as I am, was likewife a lnap- 
per-up of unconfidered trifles. Shakefpeare. 
Then was this ifland, 
Save for the fon that die did litter here, 
A freckled whelp, hag-born, not honour’d with 
A human fliape. Shakefpeare's Tcmpcjl. 
To cover with things negligently or fluttiflily fcattered 
about: 
They found 
The room with volumes litter'd round. Swift. 
To cover with draw: 
He found a dall where oxen flood. 
But for his eafe well litter'd was the floor. Dryden. 
To fupply cattle with bedding. 
LITTERING, f. The aCl of bringing forth as applied 
to fome animals; that which is provided for litter. 
LiTTERMORE, an ifland near the welt coad of Ire¬ 
land, and county of Galway, about four miles long, and 
two wide. Lat. 53. 17. N. Ion. 9. 4.0. W. 
LITTLE, adj. comp, lefs, fuperlat. leaf-, [ leitels , Goth, 
ly’cel. Sax.] Small in extent.—The coaft of Dan went out 
too little for them. Jofiua xix.—Not great ; linall; dimi¬ 
nutive ; of fmall bulk.—His fon, being then very little, I 
confldered only as. wax, to be moulded as one pleafes. 
Locke. 
One would have all things little ; hence has try’d 
Turkey poults, freflt from the egg, in batter fry’d. King. 
©f fmall dignity, power, or importance.—When thou wait 
little in thine own fight, wad thou not made the head of 
the tribes? 1 Sam. xv. 17.—Not much ; not many.-—A little 
fleep, a little Humber, a little folding of the hands to deep j 
fo fliall poverty come upon thee. Proverbs. 
A little learning is a dang’rous thing; 
Drink deep, or tafle not the Pierian fpring. Pope. 
Some; not none: in this fenfe it always ftands between 
the article and the noun.— I leave him to reconcile thefe 
contradictions, which may plentifully be found in him, 
by any one who will but read with a little attention, Locke. 
LITTLE, f. A fmall fpace: 
Much in little was writ; and all convey’d 
With cautious care, for fear to be betray’d. Dryden . 
A fmall part; a fmall proportion.—He that defpifeth lit¬ 
tle things, fliall perifli by little and little. Ecclus. —I gave 
thee thy mader’s houfe, and the houfe of Ifrael and Ju¬ 
dah ; and, if that had been too little, I would have given 
fuch and fuch things. 2 Sam. xii. 8.—They have much of 
the poetry of Maecenas, but little of his liberality. Dryden. 
&or grudge I thee the much that Grecians give, 
Nor murm’ring take the little I receive. Dryden. 
A flight affair; 
L I T 
As if ’twere little from their town to chafe, 
I through the feas purfued their exil’d race. Dryden. 
I view with anger and difdain, 
How little gives thee joy or pain : 
A print, a bronze, a flow’r, a root. Prior. 
Not much.—Thefe they are fitted for, and little die. Cheyne, 
LITTLE, adv. In a fmall degree.—The received de¬ 
finition of names fliould be changed as little as pofiible, 
Watts's Logic. —In a fmall quantity.—The poor fleep little. 
Otway. —In fome degree, but not great.—Where there is 
too great a thinnefs in the fluids, fubacid fubdances are 
proper, though they are a little adringent. Arbuthnot. —Not 
much.—The tongue of the juff is as choice filver; the 
heart of the wicked is little worth. Prov. x. 20. 
LITTLE (John), a mod egregious inifer, who died at 
Kcntifli Town, in May 1798, at the age of 84. Some days 
previous to his death, his phyfician perfuaded him to take 
a little wine, as indifpenfably neceffary to recruit his de¬ 
cayed drength, occafioned by his miferable and parfimo-. 
nious living. Mr. Little, fearful of trufling his fervant 
with the key of the wine-cellar, infifted upon his carrying 
him down flairs, to get a Angle bottle; when the fudden 
tranfition from a warm bed to a damp cellar brought on 
a fit of apoplexy, which occafioned his death. On exami¬ 
nation, it appeared that he poffeffed upwards of 25,0001. 
in the different tontines; n,oool. in the 4 percents, be- 
fides 2000I. per ann. of landed property; which then de¬ 
volved to a brother, to whom he never afforded the lead 
afliftance, on account of his being married, matrimony be¬ 
ing a date into which he himfelf never entered, and for 
which he always entertained the greatefl detedation. He re¬ 
dded upwards of forty years in the fame houfe, one room 
of which had not been occupied for the fpace of fourteen 
years; but which on his death was found to contain 173 
pairs of breeches, with a large proportion of other articles 
of wearing apparel; and in the coach-houfe were difco- 
vered, fecreted in different parts of the building, 180 wigs, 
which had been bequeathed to him by different relatives. 
LITTLE ALGON'QUINS, Indians who inhabit near 
the Three Rivers, and can raife about 100 warriors. 
LITTLE BAIR'AM. See Bairam, vol. ii. p. 632. 
LITTLE BERK'HAMSTEAD, a village about four 
miles from Hertford. Near the church has been lately 
built a lofty tower, which commands a mod extenlive 
profpeCt. Here is alfo the elegant feat of James Bourchier, 
efq. not far from which is Woolmers, the feat of S. Whit¬ 
bread, M. P. 
LITTLE BRITAIN, a pod-town of America, in 
Orange county, New York; 294 miles from Wafhington. 
■—A townfhip in Lancader county, PennfyIvania, contain¬ 
ing 1365 inhabitants.—A tcwnfliip in Chefler county, in 
the fame date.—A dreet in London. 
LITTLE CHESTER. See Derby, vol. v. p.471. 
LITTLE COM'PTON, a townfhip of North America, 
in Newport county, Rhode Ifland, affording greater quan¬ 
tities of meat, butter, cheefe, vegetables, &c. than any 
other towm of its fize. The inhabitants, who are indul- 
trious, manufacture linen and tow-cloth, flannels, See. of 
an excellent quality, and in confiderable quantities, forfale. 
LITTLE CREE'K, a town of America, in Kent coun¬ 
ty, Delaware, containing 1908 inhabitants.—A town in 
Suffex county, Delaware, containing 2164 inhabitants. 
LITTLE DEAN, in Glouceflerfhire, is three miles 
diflant from Great Dean. It is a very fmall town on the 
verge of the forefl, (fee Dean, vol. v. p. 630.) and had 
formerly a market. The only manufacture carried on here 
is making of nails; and thofe made in this place are fu- 
perior to mod in the kingdom. Contiguous to the town 
is a penitentiary-houfe and bridewell for the forefl-divifion 
of the county. 
LITTLE FA'LLS, a town of United America, in the 
date of New York, on the Mohawk river: feven miles 
sad of German Flats, and eighty wed of Albany. Tho 
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