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Webster 1913 Edition
Few
Few
(fū)
, Adj.
[
Com
par.
Fewer
(fū′ẽr)
; sup
erl.
Fewest
.] [OE.
fewe
, feawe
, AS. feá
, pl. feáwe
; akin to OS. fāh
, OHG. fō
fao
, Icel. fār
, Sw. få
, pl., Dan. faa
, pl., Goth. faus
, L. paucus
, cf. Gr. παῦρος
. Cf. Paucity
.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; – indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituting a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
“Are not my days few?” Job x. 20.
Few
know and fewer
care. Proverb.
☞ Few is often used partitively; as, few of them.
– The few
, the minority; – opposed to the many or the majority.
Webster 1828 Edition
Few
FEW
,Adj.
Not many; small in number. Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few; but few men, in times of party, regard the maxim.