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Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson.

The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.

Easily frightened; timorous. [Written also timersome.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To dress or smarten up; to spruce. --Tit`i*va"tion, Tit`ti*va"tion (#), n. [Both Humorous]

e end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras.

Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton. To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.

The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. Howell.

The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.

A drunkard; -- so called humorously, or in contempt.

The quality or state of being unamiable; moroseness.

Not amiable; morose; ill-natured; repulsive. -- Un*a"mi*a*bly, adv.

A pawnbroker. [Slang] Thackeray. My uncle, a pawnbroker. [Slang] - - Uncle Sam, a humorous appellation given to the United States Government. See Uncle Sam, in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

r of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.

duct. Acoustic vessels. See under Acoustic. -- Weaker vessel, a woman; -- now applied humorously. "Giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel." 1 Peter iii. 7. "You are the weaker vessel." Shak.

Fig.: Unamiable; morose. Carlyle.

Noisy; clamorous. Gauden. R. Browning.

One who vociferates, or is clamorous. [R.]

Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ness, n.

h wafers are baked. -- Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. Beau. & Fl.

Done, made, or laid in waggery or for sport; sportive; humorous; as, a waggish trick. -- Wag"gish*ly, adv. -- Wag"gish*ness, n.