a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `a'; a small but indefinite number
A few weeks ago. A few more wagons than usual. An invalid's pleasures are few and far between. Few roses were still blooming. Few women have led troops in battle.
source: WordNet 3.0
Not many; small, limited, or confined in number; -- indicating a small portion of units or individuals constituing a whole; often, by ellipsis of a noun, a few people.
