small

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Being below the average in size or magnitude.
2. adj. Limited in importance or significance; trivial: a small matter.
3. adj. Limited in degree or scope: small farm operations.
4. adj. Lacking position, influence, or status; minor: "A crowd of small writers had vainly attempted to rival Addison” ( Thomas Macaulay).
5. adj. Unpretentious; modest: made a small living; helped the cause in my own small way.
6. adj. Not fully grown; very young.
7. adj. Narrow in outlook; petty: a small mind.
8. adj. Having been belittled; humiliated: Their comments made me feel small.
9. adj. Diluted; weak. Used of alcoholic beverages.
10. adj. Lacking force or volume: a small voice.
11. adv. In small pieces: Cut the meat up small.
12. adv. Without loudness or forcefulness; softly.
13. adv. In a small manner.
14. n. A part that is smaller or narrower than the rest: the small of the back.
15. n. Small things considered as a group.
16. n. Chiefly British Small items of clothing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Slender; thin; narrow.
2. Little in size; not great or large; of less than average or ordinary dimensions; diminutive.
3. Little or inferior in degree, quantity, amount, duration, number, value, etc.; short (in time or extent); narrow, etc.
4. Low, as applied to station, social position, etc.
5. Being of little moment, weight, or importance; trivial; insignificant; petty; trifling: as, it is a small matter or thing; a small subject.
6. Of little genius, ability, or force of character; petty; insignificant.
7. Containing little of the principal quality, or little strength; weak: as, small beer.
8. Thin: applied to tones or to the voice. Fine; of a clear and high sound; treble.
9. Gentle; soft; faint; not loud.
10. Characterized by littleness of mind or character; evincing little worth; narrow-minded; sordid; selfish; ungenerous; mean; base; unworthy.
11. Having little property; carrying on a business on a small scale.
12. Meager in quantity, as a body of water: an anglers' epithet: as, the water is too small to use the fly.
13. Noting the condition of the cutting edge of a saw as condensed by hammering: same as tight.
14. Unostentatiously; without pretension.
15. Synonyms Smaller, Fewer (see less), tiny, puny, stunted, Lilliputian, minute.
16. Inconsiderable, unimportant, slender, scanty, moderate, paltry, slight, feeble.
17. Shallow. See pettiness.
18. Illiberal, stingy, scrimping.
19. n. A small thing or quantity; also, the small or slender part of a thing: as, the small of the leg or of the back; specifically, the smallest part of the trunk of a whale; the tapering part toward, near, or at the base of the flukes.
20. n. plural Same as small-clothes.
21. n. plural The “little go,” or previous examination: as, to be plucked for smalls.
22. n. plural In coal-mining, same as small coal (see above).
23. n. plural In metal-mining, ore mixed with gangue in particles of small size: a term used with various shades of meaning in certain districts of England.
24. To make little or less; lessen.
25. In a small quantity or degree; little.
26. Low; in low tones; gently; timidly; also, in a shrill or high key.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.
2. adj. figuratively Young, as a child.
3. adj. writing, incomparable Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.
4. adv. this sense?) In a small fashion.
5. adv. In or into small pieces.
6. adv. obsolete To a small extent.
7. n. Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.
8. n. UK, in the plural Underclothes.
9. v. obsolete, transitive To make little or less.
10. v. intransitive To become small; to dwindle.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable.
2. adj. Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant.
3. adj. Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.
4. adj. Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.
5. adj. Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.
6. adv. obsolete In or to small extent, quantity, or degree; little; slightly.
7. adv. Obs. or Humorous Not loudly; faintly; timidly.
8. n. The small or slender part of a thing.
9. n. colloq. Smallclothes.
10. n. Same as Little go. See under Little, a.
11. v. obsolete To make little or less.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the slender part of the back
2. adj. slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope
3. adj. (of children and animals) young, immature
4. adj. have fine or very small constituent particles
5. adj. lowercase.
6. adv. on a small scale
7. adj. limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
8. adj. made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)
9. adj. not large but sufficient in size or amount
10. adj. (of a voice) faint
11. adj. low or inferior in station or quality
12. adj. limited in size or scope
13. n. a garment size for a small person