noun
Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acari (syn. Acarina).
A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
A lepton, a small coin used in Judea in the time of Christ.
A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
a mite
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing — and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did.
verb
Eye dialect spelling of might.
name
A minor river in Cumbria, England, which joins the Cumbrian Esk and River Irt near Ravenglass.