About The Word Mite
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What's The Definition Of Mite?
[n] any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods
[n] a slight but appreciable addition; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" Synonyms | Synonyms for Mite: hint | jot | pinch | soupcon | speck | tinge | touch Related Terms | Find terms related to Mite: ace | arachnid | arthropod | atom | bairn | bawbee | beetle | bit | bug | cat flea | caterpillar | centipede | cherub | chigoe | child | chilopod | chit | cockroach | crab | crown | crumb | dab | daddy longlegs | darling | diplopod | dog flea | dole | dollar | dot | dram | dribble | driblet | drop | droplet | dwarf | farthing | fiver | flea | fleck | florin | fly | flyspeck | fourpence | fourpenny | fragment | gnat | gobbet | grain | granule | grayback | groat | guinea | hair | half crown | half dollar | half rations | halfpenny | handful | harvestman | hexapod | innocent | insect | iota | jigger | jot | kid | kitten | lamb | lambkin | larva | little | little bit | little bugger | little fellow | little guy | little innocent | little one | little tad | little tot | lota | louse | mag | maggot | meg | mere subsistence | microbe | microorganism | midge | millepede | millipede | minim | minimum | minutia | minutiae | modicum | molecule | monkey | mote | new pence | nipper | nit | np | nutshell | nymph | offspring | ounce | p | parasite | particle | pebble | peewee | pence | penny | pinch | pinhead | pinpoint | pittance | point | pony | pound | quid | red bug | roach | sand flea | scorpion | scrap | scrimption | scruple | shaver | shilling | short allowance | short commons | sixpence | smidgen | smitch | snip | snippet | speck | spider | spoonful | spot | starvation wages | tad | tarantula | tenner | thimbleful | threepence | threepenny bit | thrippence | tick | tiny bit | tittle | tot | trifling amount | trivia | tuppence | twopence | vanishing point | vermin | wee tot | weevil | whit See Also | acarid | Acarina | acarine | acarus | itch mite | order Acarina | rust mite | sarcoptid | small indefinite amount | small indefinite quantity | snuff | spider mite | tetranychid | trombiculiid | trombidiid Mite In Webster's Dictionary \Mite\, n. [AS. m[=i]te mite (in sense 1); akin to LG.
mite, D. mijt, G. miete, OHG. m[=i]za; cf. Goth. maitan to
cut.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of
which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar
mite, harvest mite, etc. See {Acarina}.
2. [D. mijt; prob. the same word.] A small coin formerly
circulated in England, rated at about a third of a
farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in
Palestine in the time of Christ.
Two mites, which make a farthing. --Mark xii.
49.
3. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
4. Anything very small; a minute object; a very little
quantity or particle.
For in effect they be not worth a myte. --Chaucer.
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