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Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.

Penuriousness. [Obs.] By cause of his skarsete and chincherie. Caucer.

Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.

Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] Quarles.

Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living. " A vicious living." Chaucer.

Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. Necessitous heirs and penurious parents. Arbuthnot.

nd covetous; 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.

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…

oöl.), a kind of shark found on the South coast of Britain: the tope. -- Penny father, a penurious person; a niggard. [Obs.] Robinson (More's Utopia). -- Penny grass (Bot.), pennyroyal. [R.] -- Penny post, a post carrying a letter for a penny; also, a mail carrier. -- Penny wise, wise or prudent only in small matter…

Penuriousness; miserliness. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously. Dryden.

Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] haucer.

; to gather in small portions by laborius effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously; -- often followed by together or up; as, to scrape money together. The prelatical party complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers. Fuller.

One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.

To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour; hence, to be diligent and penurious; as, to scrub hard for a living.

A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. Sir W. Scott.

Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.

. . no novice, but a governor wily and wise." Chaucer. Nor, on the other side, Will I be penuriously wise As to make money, that's my slave, my idol. Beau. & Fl. Lords do not care for me: I am too wise to die yet. Ford.