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Deranged in mind; out of one's senses. [Obs.] These poor informal women. Shak.

gers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people. Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door Cowper.

ally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb. Shak. I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. Matt. xxvii. 4. The aidless,innocent lady, his wished prey. Milton.

eak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

f; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.

A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.

ment; a politician without judgment. He shall judge thy people with righteousness and thy poor with judgment. Ps. lxxii. 2. Hernia. I would my father look'd but with my eyes. Theseus. Rather your eyes must with his judgment look. Shak.

To bring forth young. [Obs.] Shak. The poor beast had but lately kindled. Holland.

Mischievous; roguish; waggish. Cupid is knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. Shak.

all your quarrels will I be your knight." Tennyson. Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms. Shak.

ll the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor. Johnson.

sible; day; especially, the dawn of day. The murderer, rising with the light, killeth the poor and needy. Job xxiv. 14.

ithin limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.

A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.

all quantity or degree; not much; slightly; somewhat; -- often with a preceding it. " The poor sleep little." Otway.

To let fall heavily or lazily. And their poor jades Lob down their heads. Shak. To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.

A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété.

beth being a lone woman. Collection of Records (1642). A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear. Shak.

Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies. J. S. Mill.

or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest. We 'll . . . hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out. Shak.