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Definition of Small indefinite quantity
1. Noun. An indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude.
Specialized synonyms: Helping, Portion, Serving, Mouthful, Taste, Crumb, Dab, Splash, Splatter, Bit, Spot, Hair, Hair's-breadth, Hairsbreadth, Whisker, Modicum, Scattering, Sprinkling, Shoe String, Shoestring, Spray, Spraying, Nose, Step, Stone's Throw, Little, Schtick, Schtik, Shtick, Shtik, Shade, Tad, Lower Limit, Minimum, Morsel, Handful, Smattering, Couple, Drib, Driblet, Drop, Dollop, Dreg, Diddley, Diddly, Diddly-shit, Diddly-squat, Diddlyshit, Diddlysquat, Doodly-squat, Jack, Shit, Squat, Nip, Shot, Hint, Suggestion, Trace, Iota, Scintilla, Shred, Smidge, Smidgen, Smidgeon, Smidgin, Tittle, Whit, Tot, Hint, Jot, Mite, Pinch, Soupcon, Speck, Tinge, Touch
Generic synonyms: Indefinite Quantity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Small Indefinite Quantity
Literary usage of Small indefinite quantity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"First a general experiment was made by putting a small indefinite quantity of
each metal, in a finely divided state, into an indefinite quantity of ferric ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"LOAK, LOKE, LOCK, a small indefinite quantity. Also applied to a small quantity
of meal, sand, sugar, etc. A loah of anything is a larger quantity than a ..."
3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"LOAK, LORE, LOCK, a small indefinite quantity. Also applied to a small quantity
of meal, sand, sugar, etc. A loak of anything is a larger quantity than a ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1829)
"Beside these, there is a small portion of carbonic acid, a variable portion of
aqueous vapor, and a-very small, indefinite quantity of hydrogen. (See Gas. ..."
5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1829)
"Beside these, there is a small portion of carbonic acid, a variable portion of
aqueous vapor, and a very small, indefinite quantity of hydrogen. (See Gas. ..."
6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1838)
"Beside these, there is a small portion of carbonic acid, a variable portion of
aqueous vapor, and a very small, indefinite quantity of hydrogen. (See Gas. ..."
7. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake (1851)
"Beside these, there is a small portion of carbonic acid, a variable portion of
aqueous vapor, and a very small, indefinite quantity of hydrogen. (See Gas. ..."
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