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Like a hag; lean; ugly. [R.]

Like a hag; ugly; wrinkled. But on both did haggish age steal on. Shak.

Wanting beauty or attractiveness; deformed; ugly; ill-looking. Ill-favored and lean-fleshed. Gen. xli. 3. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ly, adv. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ness, n.

Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed. Cotton.

e backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn. I should kick, being kicked. Shak.

Ugly; loathsome. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] This laidly and loathsome worm. W. Howitt.

Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n.

owerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

Implying censure. [Obs.] "What man does not resent an ugly reflexive word" South.

To cause to return; to recall. [Obs.] And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser.

widow's thirds. (b) To publish, as a proclamation. [Obs.] (c) To adorn; to embellish. An ugly woman, in rich habit set out with jewels, nothing can become. Dryden.

Smugly; finically. [Obs.] Ford.

Resembling a beast's snout. The nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad and snouty like a pig. Otway.

To place snugly. [R.] Goldsmith.

n kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling. They saw, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathy. Milton.

Ugly. [Obs.] "Such an uglesome countenance." Latimer.

To disfigure; to make ugly. [R.] Mad. D'Arblay.

In an ugly manner; with deformity.

The quality or state of being ugly.