dial. [OE. lýtling: see LITTLE a. and -ING3.] A little child or young animal.
c. 975. Rushw. Gosp., Matt. xix. 14. Leteþ þa lytlingan cuman to me.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., Matt. xi. 25. Þu þe be-hyddyst þas þing fram wisun and gleawun, and onwruʓe þa lytlingun.
1721. Bailey, Litteling, a little one.
1852. Alex. Robb, Poems & S., 187. Twa or three Curs o’ littlins baulin’.
1888. Sheffield Gloss., Littling, the smallest pup, &c., of a litter.
1889. Barrie, Window in Thrums, 104. But never no sign o’ a murdered litlin’.
