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ort

[awrt] / ɔrt /
NOUN
bit
Synonyms
WEAK
atom butt chicken feed chip chunk crumb dab dash division dollop dose dot dram driblet drop droplet end excerpt flake fraction fragment grain iota item jot lick lump minim mite modicum moiety molecule morsel niggle ounce parcel part particle peanuts pinch portion sample scale scintilla scrap scruple section segment shard share shaving shred slice sliver smidgen snatch snip snippet specimen speck splinter sprinkling stub stump taste tittle trace trickle trifle whit

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Other orts and ends of rabble made up the procession, which with antic and grimace marched about the village and neighbourhood.

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A royal game of fox and goose, To play on such a loss; Wherever she set down her orts, Thereby he put a cross.

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It was Greece and the East; where, as you may say, abjects and orts of truth came down; not the live Mysteries, but the membra disjecta of the vanished Mysteries of a vanished age.

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The metal good and the walnut wood   Did soon in flinders flee;They tost the orts to south and north,   And grappled knee to knee.

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The day was bright and fair with no wind, save light airs playing about from the westward ort, and all things gleamed and glittered in the sun.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.