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Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon.

One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. " A bilious old nabob." Macaulay.

In no degree; not at all. Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. Fairfax.

A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital. Weale.

ds grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. Chaucer. A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope.

] I shall easily grant that novations in religion are a main cause of distempers in commonwealths. Laud.

Wealth; riches; affluence. Swift

Having a large estate or property; wealthy; rich; affluent; as, an opulent city; an opulent citizen. -- Op"u*lent*ly, adv. I will piece Her opulent throne with kingdoms. Shak.

An aviary; a poultry house. Weale.

es on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.

To excel in splendor. A throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. Milton.

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

An excess; superfluity. [Obs.] "This overset of wealth and pomp. " Bp. Burnel.

ged to ascribe (something to some source); to be indebted or obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victoty to his lieutenants. Milton. O deem thy fall not owed to man's decree. Pope.

Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift.

Abounding in money; wealthy; rich. [Obs.] Sherwood.

ssively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.

A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.

One who, or that which, planishes. Weale.

Plutocracy; the rule of wealth. [R.]