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to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.

In a smug manner. [R.] Gay.

In a snug manner; closely; safely.

An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag. Around the beldam all erect they hang. Akenside.

A stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. -- Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. Wh…

Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. [Colloq.] -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n. The cantankerous old maiden aunt. Theckeray.

An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. [Obs.] Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night. Shak.

Snugly; comfortably.

A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. [Obs.] An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser.

Distorted; misshapen. [Obs.] Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.

A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.

st, As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath. Mrs. Browning. To fling out, to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.

Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.] Chaucer. Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares. Shak.

Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. [Colloq.]

Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.

Anything very ugly or horrid. Milton.

Ugly; frightful. Grewsome sights of war. C. Kingsley.

An ugly old woman.