mite

noun

A very small contribution or amount of money.

noun

A widow’s mite.

noun

A very small object, creature, or particle.

noun

A coin of very small value, especially an obsolete British coin worth half a farthing.

idiom

(a mite) To a small degree; somewhat.

noun

Any of numerous small or minute arachnids of the order Acarina, including species that damage crops or stored food and species that are parasitic on animals and often transmit disease.

noun

A small coin of any kind, of slight value; any very small sum of money. No coin seems to have been so called specifically.

noun

An English weight somewhat heavier than a grain troy.

noun

An old money of account, the twenty-fourth part of a penny.