Definition of "midshipmite" []

• A very small midshipman. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel what might be called midshipmite compunction."
• "Mills, who was only a "midshipmite" still, in every sense of the word, accompanying them with a rattling refrain from a pair of ivory castanets which he had purchased for a paper dollar in a curio shop at Canton."
• "He hung about its hutch, contemplating its proportions in the exulting, gruesome mood of that midshipmite who seasoned the steamy cauldron, and, no doubt, hummed to himself in"