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Ignorant of letters or books; unlettered; uninstructed; uneducated; as, an illiterate man, or people.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

action for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't. [Colloq. & illiterate speech.]

o, as sign of infinitive, in order to; to the end of. [Obs., except as sometimes heard in illiterate speech.] -- "What went ye out for to see" Luke vii. 25. See To, prep., 4. -- O for, would that I had; may there be granted; -- elliptically expressing desire or prayer. "O for a muse of fire." Shak. -- Were it not for…

. A contraction of have not or has not; as, I hain't, he hain't, we hain't. [Colloq. or illiterate speech.] [Written also han't.]

A contraction of have not, or has not, used in illiterate speech. In the United States the commoner spelling is hain't.

The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census.

A cover. [Disused except in illiterate speech.]

A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.

Illiterate. [Obs.] E. Waterhouse.

A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate. G. Eliot.

The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] J. F. Cooper.

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. The jargon and patois of several provinces. Sir T. Browne.

Rude; clownish; illiterate.

us man; a person addicted to lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roué. Am illiterate and frivolous old rake. Macaulay.

A turtle. [Obs. or Illiterate]

Not cultivated; rude; illiterate. [Obs.]

Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

Not versed in literature; illiterate. Dryden.

To worry; to annoy. [Illiterate]