dial. Also lil. [app. repr. a contraction of ON. lītell, lītl- LITTLE: cf. mod.Sw. lilla, Da. lille.] Little.

1

1633.  King & Poore N. Man, 89. Full lile we know his hard griefe of mind.

2

1848.  Mrs. Gaskell, Mary Barton, I. vii. 116. He’ll have a hard death, poor lile fellow. Ibid. (1863), Sylvia’s L., I. xi. 224. I trust to thee to look after the lile lass.

3

1894.  Hall Caine, Manxman, 200. Nice lil thing, too.

4