Few (fū), a. [Compar. Fewer (?);
superl. Fewest.]
[OE. fewe,
feawe, AS. feá, pl.
feáwe; akin to OS. fāh, OHG. fō fao, Icel. fār, Sw. få, pl., Dan. faa,
pl., Goth. faus, L.
paucus, cf. Gr. pay^ros. Cf. Paucity.] Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people. "Are not my days few?" Job x. 20.
Few know and fewer care.
Proverb. &fist; Few is often used partitively; as, few of them.
A few, a small number. -- In few, in a few words; briefly. Shak.
-- No few, not few; more
than a few;
many. Cowper.
-- The few, the minority; -- opposed to the many or the majority.
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