Word Meanings - EPISTOLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little epistle. Lamb.

LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
EPISTLER
The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service. (more info) 1. A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament. M. Arnold.
EPISTLE
One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles. Epistle side, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel. One sees the pulpit on the epistle side.
LITTLE
place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
BELITTLE
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.