1. (a.) Smallest, either in size or degree; shortest; lowest; most unimportant; as, the least insect; the least mercy; the least space.

2. (adv.) In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others; as, to reward those who least deserve it.

3. (conj.) See Lest.

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