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A little swain.

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• SWAINLING
  A little swain.
• 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.
• SWAINMOTE
  A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders,
• SWAINSHIP
  The condition of a swain.
• SWAIN
  1. A servant. Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer. 2. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak.
• SWAINISH
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. "An ungentle and swainish beast." Milton. -- Swain"ish*ness, n. Emerson.
• 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.
• BOATSWAIN
  An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. The jager gull. The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain.
• COCKSWAIN
  The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
• COXSWAIN
  See COCKSWAIN
• DAGSWAIN
  Acoarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. "Under coverlets made of dagswain." Holinshed.
• BELITTLE
  To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.