quantity &c 32; rarity; infrequency &c 137; handful, maniple; minority;
exiguity.
[Diminution of number] reduction; weeding &c v.; elimination,
sarculation†, decimation; eradication.
V. be few &c adj.. render few &c adj.; reduce, diminish the number,
weed, eliminate, cull, thin, decimate.
Adj. few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered,
spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent &c 137; rari nantes
[Lat.]; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers;
reduced &c v.; unrepeated†.
Adv. rarely, here and there.