&c adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.
avarice, greed &c 817.1.
miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm†,
scrimp, lickpenny†, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner,
Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny.
V. be parsimonious &c adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe,
screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon
nothing, skin a flint.
drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop
one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
Adj. parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling,
scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed,
strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing;
chary; grudging, griping &c v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish,
hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious,
greedy, extortionate, rapacious.
Adv. with a sparing hand.
Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Lat.] [Syrus]; hoards after
hoards his rising raptures fill [Goldsmith]; the unsunn'd heaps of
miser's treasures [Milton].
CLASS VI
WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIENT AND MORAL POWERS
SECTION I.
AFFECTIONS IN GENERAL