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Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall.

Niggardliness. Sir P. Sidney.

Niggardly. [Obs.] Covetous gathering and niggardous keeping. Sir T. More.

Niggardliness. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

Niggardliness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Want of due regard; disregard; slight. [Obs.] Shak.

One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.

A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin.

A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

Oligarchic. Glover.

Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few. "Oligarchical exiles." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

An advocate or supporter of oligarchy.

ower is placed in the hands of a few persons; also, those who form the ruling few. All oligarchies, wherein a few men domineer, do what they list. Burton.

An outer garment.

To garrison to excess.

A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.

One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.

See Pilgarlic.

A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.

Same as Puggry.