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Word Meanings - PENURIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton. 2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. C. Pitt. 3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme

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1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton. 2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. C. Pitt. 3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. "My penurious band." Shak. Syn. -- Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; miserly; niggardly; stingy. See Avaricious. --Pe*nu"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Pe*nu"ri*ous*ness, n.

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  • SPAR-HUNG
    Hung with spar, as a cave.
  • SORDIDNESS
    The quality or state of being sordid.
  • SPARPOIL
    To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • CLOSEHANDED
    Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
  • SPARSELY
    In a scattered or sparse manner.
  • SPARKER
    A spark arrester.
  • PROTRACTIVE
    Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
  • SPARROWWORT
    An evergreen shrub of the genus Erica .
  • CLOSEFISTED
    Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
  • SPARKLING
    Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining.
  • SPARADRAP
    Any adhesive plaster. (more info) 1. A cerecloth.
  • SORDID
    1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous;
  • SPARK GAP
    The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.
  • CONDUCTIVITY
    The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
  • NIGGARDLY
    In a niggard manner.
  • PROTRACT
    Tedious continuance or delay. Spenser.
  • SPARKLER
    A tiger beetle.
  • SPARADA
    A small California surf fish ; -- called also shiner.
  • SPARTAN
    of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey. -- n.
  • DESPARPLE
    To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
  • FLUOR SPAR
    See FLUORITE
  • UNCLOSE
    1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
  • ENCLOSE
    To inclose. See Inclose.
  • PARCLOSE
    A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
  • 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
  • OUTSPARKLE
    To exceed in sparkling.
  • DISPARK
    1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
  • SHIVER-SPAR
    A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
  • DISPARAGEMENT
    1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a
  • DISPARATES
    Things so unequal or unlike that they can not be compared with each other.
  • ESPARTO
    A species of Spanish grass , of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.
  • ASPARAGUS
    A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceæ, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers.

 

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