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niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall.

Parsimonious; niggardly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.

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

Niggardly.

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

Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly. Bp. Hall.

Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] Quarles.

Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason.

Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] Hooker.

Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.

Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish. A very narrow and stinted charity. Smalridge.

Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.

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

Niggardly. [Obs.]

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious. Bacon. Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, p…

To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous. Gower. The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare. Franklin. To pinch at, to find fault with; to take exception to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. -- Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.

retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall.