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A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.

Like a churl; rude; cross-grained; ungracious; surly; illiberal; niggardly. "Churlish benefits." Ld. Burleigh. Half mankind maintain a churlish strife. Cowper.

In a churlish manner.

Rudeness of manners or temper; lack of kindness or courtesy.

Rude; churlish; violent. Longfellow.

Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

e deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box. Yet since his neighbors give, the churl unlocks, Damning the poor, his tripple-bolted box. J. Warton.

A rude, rustic man; a churl. The miller was a stout carl. Chaucer.

A churl; a boor; a peasant or countryman. [Obs.] Shak.

A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the servile classes; a churl.

Stupid; churlish. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child of nature, without guile. Cowper.

An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving.

Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.

qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. Thy currish spirit Governed a wolf. Shak. Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart. -- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n.

Like a dog; having the bad qualities of a dog; churlish; growling; brutal. -- Dog"*gish*ly, adv. -- Dog"gish*ness, n.

Churl; curmudgeon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth. [Obs.] He was a gentle harlot and a kind. Chaucer.

A low fellow; a churl. Raff merchant, a dealer in lumber and odd refuse. [Prov. Eng.]

of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion. The murmur and the churl's rebelling. Chaucer. Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord. Josh. xxii. 16.