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

Niggardliness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Somewhat niggard.

The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.

Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall.

Niggardliness. Sir P. Sidney.

Niggardly. [Obs.] Covetous gathering and niggardous keeping. Sir T. More.

Niggardliness. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

Niggardliness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Parsimonious; niggardly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

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

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

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.

Niggardly.

A mean, sordid person; a niggard. Norris.

A portion; a fragment. Some niggard fractions of an hour. Tennyson.

Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.

ed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging. Gripe penny, a miser; a niggard. D. L. Mackenzie.