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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WHIT, n. [L.] A point; a jot; the smallest part or particle imaginable. It is used without a preposition. He is not a whit the wiser for experience.
It does not me a whit displease.
The regular construction would be by a whit, or in a whit. In these phrases, a whit may be interpreted by in the least, in the smallest degree.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, probably alteration of wiht, wight creature, thing — more at wight Date: 15th century the smallest part or particle imaginable ; bit <what some people will do for a whit of publicity — Patrick Quinn>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. connected with, belonging to, or following Whit Sunday (Whit Monday; Whit weekend). Phrases and idioms: Whit Sunday the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2). Etymology: OE Hwita Sunnandæg, lit. white Sunday, prob. f. the white robes of the newly-baptized at Pentecost

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a particle; a least possible amount (not a whit better). Phrases and idioms: every whit the whole; wholly. no (or never a or not a) whit not at all. Etymology: earlier w(h)yt app. alt. f. WIGHT in phr. no wight etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Whit Whit, n. [OE. wight, wiht, AS. wiht a creature, a thing. See Wight, and cf. Aught, Naught.] The smallest part or particle imaginable; a bit; a jot; an iota; -- generally used in an adverbial phrase in a negative sentence. ``Samuel told him every whit.'' --1 Sam. iii. 18. ``Every whit as great.'' --South. So shall I no whit be behind in duty. --Shak. It does not me a whit displease. --Cowley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. You say not a whit or not one whit to emphasize that something is not the case at all. (mainly FORMAL or OLD-FASHIONED) He cared not a whit for the social, political or moral aspects of literature... PHRASE: with neg, PHR after v [emphasis] 2. Whit means the same as Whitsun. The orchestra gave its first performance on Whit Monday. N-UNCOUNT: usu N n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Iota, jot, tittle, particle, bit, atom, grain, scrap, mite, ace, scintilla.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

[i. e. Whittington's.] Newgate. Cant.--Five rum-padders are rubbed in the darkmans out of the whit, and are piked into the deuseaville; five highwaymen broke out of Newgate in the night, and are gone into the country.

Moby Thesaurus

ace, atom, bit, dab, damn, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, dwarf, farthing, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, gobbet, grain, granule, groat, hair, handful, hoot, iota, jot, little, little bit, lota, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, modicum, molecule, mote, nutshell, ounce, particle, pebble, pinch, pittance, point, scruple, shred, smidgen, smitch, speck, spoonful, spot, thimbleful, tiny bit, tittle, trifling amount, trivia, whoop