Sentence:  "Silas, now," Esther Whitley had said, "would be a good one for you, Hannah. He's a <WSD>mite</WSD> on the old side, but he's steady, an' he's been wed before. He knows the ways of a woman better'n some." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (sometimes used adverbially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle