WordWeight : Weighing the Words

Pronunciation : Few
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [OE. fewe, feawe, AS. fe?, pl. fe?we; akin to OS. fah, OHG. f*, Icel. far, Sw. f?, pl., Dan. faa, pl., Goth. faus, L. paucus, cf. Gr. Paucity.]
Definition : Defn: 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.

Note: 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.

[Compar. Fewer; superl. Fewest.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913