few

1. (preceded by another determiner) An indefinite, but usually small, number of.Examples: "There are a few cars (=some, but a relatively small number) in the street."; "Quite a few people (=a significant number) were pleasantly surprised."; "I think he's had a few drinks."

2. (used alone) Not many; a small (in comparison with another number stated or implied) but somewhat indefinite number of.Examples: "Very few did she have not to go there, did she?"; "I was expecting a big crowd at the party, but very few people (=almost none) turned up."; "Your men are valiant but their number few, And cannot terrifie his mightie hoſt, […]"

3. (meteorology, of clouds) Obscuring one to two oktas (eighths) of the sky.Examples: "Tonight: A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness overnight."; "NOAA definition of the term few clouds: An official sky cover classification for aviation weather observations, descriptive of a sky cover of 1/8 to 2/8. This is applied only when obscuring phenomena aloft are present--that is, not when obscuring phenomena are surface-based, such as fog."

4. (meteorology, of rainfall with regard to a location) (US?) Having a 10 percent chance of measurable precipitation (0.01 inch); used interchangeably with isolated.