mite

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MITE, noun [Heb. small.] 1. A very small insect of the genus Acarus. 2. In Scripture, a small piece of money, the quarter of a denarius, or about seven English farthings. 3. Any thing proverbially very small; a very little particle or quantity. 4. The twentieth part of a grain.
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