Word Meanings - NIGGARDOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Niggardly. Covetous gathering and niggardous keeping. Sir T. More.

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• KEEP
  k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• COVETOUSLY
  In a covetous manner.
• GATHER
  To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• COVETOUS
  1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess
• KEEPERSHIP
  The office or position of a keeper. Carew.
• COVETOUSNESS
  1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad
• KEEPING
  Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping. Keeping room, a family sitting room. Syn. -- Care; guardianship; custody; possession. (more info) 1. A holding;
• NIGGARDLY
  Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- Avarcious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurios; sordid;
• KEEPSAKE
  Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.
• NIGGARDOUS
  Niggardly. Covetous gathering and niggardous keeping. Sir T. More.
• GATHERING
  1. The act of collecting or bringing together. 2. That which is gathered, collected, or brought together; as: A crowd; an assembly; a congregation. A charitable contribution; a collection. A tumor or boil suppurated or maturated; an abscess.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• CROWKEEPER
  A person employed to scare off crows; hence, a scarecrow. Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper. Shak.
• BOOKKEEPER
  One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.
• MEGATHERE; MEGATHERIUM
  An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
• SHOPKEEPER
  A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.
• HOUSEKEEPER
  1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants
• DOORKEEPER
  One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
• BARKEEPER
  One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
• UNDERKEEP
  To keep under, or in subjection; to suppress. Spenser.
• GAMEKEEPER
  One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.