Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Little \Lit"tle\, n.
   1. That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or
      the like.

            Much was in little writ.              --Dryden.

            There are many expressions, which carrying with them
            no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my
            ignorance.                            --Locke.

   2. A small degree or scale; miniature. `` His picture in
      little.'' --Shak.

            A little, to or in a small degree; to a limited
            extent; somewhat; for a short time. `` Stay a
            little.'' --Shak.

            The painter flattered her a little.   --Shak.
      

   {By little and little}, or {Little by little}, by slow
      degrees; piecemeal; gradually.

Little \Lit"tle\, a. [The regular comparative of this word is
   wanting, its 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 great, the littlest doubts are
   fear.'' --Shak.] [OE. litel, lutel, AS. l?tel, l[=i]tel, l?t;
   akin to OS. littil, D. luttel, LG. l["u]tt, OHG. luzzil, MHG.
   l["u]tzel; and perh. to AS. lytig deceitful, lot deceit,
   Goth. liuts deceitful, lut?n to deceive; cf. also Icel.
   l[=i]till little, Sw. liten, Dan. liden, lille, Goth.
   leitils, which appear to have a different root vowel.]
   1. Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed
      to {big} or {large}; as, a little body; a little animal; a
      little piece of ground; a little hill; a little distance;
      a little child.

Little \Lit"tle\, adv.
   In a small quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat;
   -- often with a preceding it. `` The poor sleep little.''
   --Otway.

Little \Lit"tle\, a.

   {Little Englander}, an Englishman opposed to territorial
      expansion of the British Empire. See {Antiimperialism},
      above. Hence:

   {Little Englandism}.

   {Little-neck clam}, or {Little neck} (Zo["o]l.), the quahog,
      or round clam.

   {Little peach}, a disease of peaches in which the fruit is
      much dwarfed, and the leaves grow small and thin. The
      cause is not known.

   {Little Rhod"y}, Rhode Island; -- a nickname alluding to its
      small size. It is the smallest State of the United States.
      

   {Little Sisters of the Poor} (R. C. Ch.), an order of women
      who care for old men and women and infirm poor, for whom
      special houses are built. It was established at St.
      Servan, Britany, France, in 1840, by the Abb['e] Le
      Pailleur.

   {Little slam} (Bridge Whist), the winning of 12 out of the 13
      tricks. It counts 20 points on the honor score. Living
picture \Liv"ing pic"ture\
   A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a
   tableau as imitating a work of art.

Source : WordNet®

little
     adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude
            or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house";
            "a small car"; "a little (or small) group"; "a small
            voice" [syn: {small}] [ant: {large}, {large}]
     2: (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or
        degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least
        some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought";
        "little hope remained"; "little time is left"; "we still
        have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "a little
        time is left" [syn: {little(a)}] [ant: {much(a)}]
     3: of short duration or distance; "a brief stay in the
        country"; "in a little while"; "it's a little way away"
        [syn: {brief}]
     4: not fully grown; "what a big little boy you are"; "small
        children" [syn: {small}]
     5: (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling
        sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
        lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at
        war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse
        regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited
        to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a
        police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it
        seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: {fiddling}, {footling},
         {lilliputian}, {Mickey Mouse}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling},
         {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}]
     6: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice"
        [syn: {small}]
     7: younger brother or sister; "little brother" [syn: {little(a)},
         {younger}] [ant: {big(a)}]
     8: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
        written all in minuscule letters" [syn: {minuscule}, {small}]
     9: small in a way that arouses feelings (of tenderness or its
        opposite depending on the context); "a nice little job";
        "bless your little heart"; "my dear little mother"; "a
        sweet little deal"; "I'm tired of your petty little
        schemes"; "filthy little tricks"; "what a nasty little
        situation"

little
     adv : not much; "he talked little about his family"

little
     n : a small amount or duration; "he accepted the little they
         gave him"

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

LITTLE
     
        A typeless language used to produce machine-independent
        software.  LITTLE has been used to implement SETL.
     
        "Guide to the LITTLE Language", D. Shields, LITTLE Newsletter
        33, Courant Inst (Aug 1977).