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household management, fr. Gr. vicus village, E. vicinity) + Vicinity, 1. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Himself

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household management, fr. Gr. vicus village, E. vicinity) + Vicinity, 1. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Himself busy in charge of the household economies. Froude. 2. Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy. 3. The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. The position which they hold in the general economy of language. Earle. In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence. B. Jonson. The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. Paley. 4. Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See under Political. Syn. -- Economy, Frugality, Parsimony. Economy avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advantage; frugality cuts off indulgences, and proceeds on a system of saving. The latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to lavishness or profusion. Frugality is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners; parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living. Economy is a virtue, and parsimony a vice. I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease. Swift. The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness . Golding.

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  • SAVELY
    Safely. Chaucer.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • CAUTIONARY BLOCK
    A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
  • DELIGHTING
    Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
  • MISJUDGE
    To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
  • TROUBLER
    One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
  • THRIFTINESS
    The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • DELIGHTLESS
    Void of delight. Thomson.
  • DEALBATION
    Act of bleaching; a whitening.
  • SAVORINESS
    The quality of being savory.
  • SAVACIOUN
    Salvation.
  • PROFIT
    1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain
  • SAVINGLY
    1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
  • VISITATION
    The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
  • DISLIKE
    1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
  • PROFITABLE
    Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
  • SAVOROUS
    Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
  • DEALFISH
    A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
  • SOLICITUDE
    The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
  • UNPRUDENCE
    Imprudence.
  • THYROIDEAL
    Thyroid.
  • UNTHRIFTY
    Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
  • ENTERDEAL
    Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
  • LABOR-SAVING
    Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
  • MISAVIZE
    To misadvise.
  • OVERTROUBLED
    Excessively troubled.
  • UNCONCERNMENT
    The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
  • AFTERPAINS
    The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
  • CESSAVIT
    A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
  • WASTETHRIFT
    A spendthrift.

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