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Wolfish; ravenous. Gauden.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant. [Obs.] Gauden.

Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.

Tending to ordain; directing; giving order. [R.] Gauden.

ing; to defeat or overreach by superior craft. They did so much outwit and outwealth us ! Gauden.

Penal. [Obs.] Gauden.

To behave with pertness. [Obs.] Gauden.

One who pities. Gauden.

Reparable. Gauden.

Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy. A present of everything that was rich and showy. Addison.

Folly. [Obs.] Gauden.

Required or done under penalty. Gauden.

To turn aside. Gauden.

, without taste or elegance; having an excess of showy ornaments without grace; cheap and gaudy; as, a tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.

Something shining and gaudy; something superficially shining and showy, or having a false luster, and more gay than valuable. O happy peasant! O unhappy bard! His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward. Cowper.

Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.

One who trepans. " Pitiful trepanners and impostors." Gauden.

Unbecoming to a saint. Gauden.

Usurping; encroaching. [Obs.] Gauden.

Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin. [Obs.] Gauden.