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See Hoarding, 2. Smart.

One who hoards.

ng a house and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.] Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic.

To take or steal from a hoard; to pilfer. Milton.

To hoard up. [Obs.] Shak.

s after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

To deposit in a chest; to hoard.

A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. Drayton.

To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [R.] Shak.

To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [R.] "She hutched the . . . ore." Milton.

To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard. [Obs.] Shak.

n; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard. As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er. Goldsmith.

en of the mist, a race of dwarfs or demonic beings, the original possessors of the famous hoard and ring won by Siegfrid; also, the Burgundian kings in the Nibelungenlied.

To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad u…

ants." Chaucer. The rich [person] hath many friends. Prov. xiv. 20. As a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher. Milton.

To make rotten. [Obs.] Well bet is rotten apple out of hoard, Than that it roty all the remenant. Chaucer.

One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.

e common stock. See Stock, n., 18. -- Stock gold, gold laid up so as to form a stock, or hoard. -- Stock in trade, the goods kept for sale by a shopkeeper; the fittings and appliances of a workman. Simmonds. -- Stock list, a list of stocks, or shares, dealt in, of transactions, and of prices. -- Stock lock, a lock…

Accumulated; hoarded. Bacon.

Unsteadiness. [Obs.] For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness. Chaucer.