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ld be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South.

Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. C. Pitt.

etimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ.

tilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. "Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms." Evelyn. "Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations." Burke.

t. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. G. Eliot.

misery of another; compassion; fellow- feeling; commiseration. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. Prov. xix. 17. He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog. Shak.

Of the nature of plaster. The stone . . . is a poor plastery material. Clough.

lf-denial, etc. "Not sunk in carnal pleasure." Milton. He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. Prov. xxi. 17. Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. 2 Tim. iii. 4.

nating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at. Now must the world point at poor Katharine. Shak. Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe. Dryden.

To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.] Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. Spenser.

The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity. This gallant laboring to avoid popularity falls into a habit of affectation. B. Jonson.

Poor people; the poor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Poor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Poorly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

Same as Poor, the fish.

nd sleep without any regard to glory. Burke. The law that obliges parishes to support the poor offers a premium for the encouragement of idleness. Franklin.

Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior. "A poor provant rapier." B. Jonson.