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grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a 1. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the

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grouchier, grocier, groucier; cf. Icel. krytja to murmur, krutr a 1. To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct object only, or by both the direct and indirect objects. Tis not in thee To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train. Shak. I have often heard the Presbyterians say, they did not grudge us our employments. Swift. They have grudged us contribution. Shak. 2. To hold or harbor with malicioua disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. Perish they That grudge one thought against your majesty ! Shak.

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  • INDIGNATION
    1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
  • RESERVE
    1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
  • MALIGNITY
    1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature
  • RANCOR
    The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke. Syn. --
  • SPLEENY
    1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
  • ABSTAIN
    To hinder; to withhold. Whether he abstain men from marrying. Milton.
  • WRATHLESS
    Free from anger or wrath. Waller.
  • WRATHILY
    In a wrathy manner; very angrily; wrathfully.
  • PIQUE
    1. To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger. Pique her, and soothe in turn. Byron. 2. To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or
  • HUSBANDABLE
    Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
  • GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
    Coarse meal.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • HUSBANDLESS
    Destitute of a husband. Shak.
  • WRATHY
    Very angry.
  • SPITE
    1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. This is the deadly spite that angers. Shak. 2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. Shak. In spite
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • REFRAINMENT
    Act of refraining.
  • RANCOROUS
    Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser.
  • COMPOSER
    1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • ON-HANGER
    A hanger-on.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • DERANGER
    One who deranges.
  • WANGER
    A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
  • DOUBLEGANGER
    An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
  • TRANSPARENT
    transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
  • COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
    See A
  • IMMIGRANT
    One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • GRANGER
    1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
  • ECONOMIZE
    To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett . Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.
  • FLAGRANT
    1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
  • ESTRANGER
    One who estranges.

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