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rn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.

lurt out, those words which afterward they forced to eat. Hakewill. To blurt at, to speak contemptuously of. [Obs.] Shak.

To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger. [Low]

age to the crop. -- Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. -- Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. -- Cabbage rose (Bot.…

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. "Insulted as a cit". Johnson Which past endurance sting the tender cit. Emerson.

ons; esp., a body of persons united by some common interest or pursuit; -- sometimes used contemptuously. Partidge and the rest of his clan may hoot me. Smolett. The whole clan of the enlightened among us. Burke.

Contemptuously. [R.]

The head; -- used contemptuously. Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder. Shak.

kindness." Ford. To bid defiance, To set at defiance, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. Locke.

Contemptuously.

To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog. [Colloq.]

sed as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

Disdainfully or contemptuously proud; arrogant; overbearing. A woman of a haughty and imperious nature. Clarendon.

A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.

confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously. This medley of philosophy and war. Addison. Love is a medley of endearments, jars, Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. W. Walsh.

headdresses, etc., for women. Man milliner, a man who makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange.

at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.