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n. One who lives very meagerly in order to hoard money.

n. A greedy or avaricious person.

n. A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.

n. A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.

n. A despicable person; a wretch.

n. A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.

n. A stingy person; one very reluctant to spend money.

n. A kind of large earth auger.

n. If. A miserable person; one who is wretched or unhappy.

n. An extremely avaricious person; one who hoards money; a niggard; one who in wealth conducts himself as one afflicted with poverty.

Characteristic of a miser.

To gather or keep like a miser; keep with jealous care; hoard: with up.

n. An iron cylinder with an opening in the side and a cutting lip, attached to the lower end of a boring-rod, used in the process of sinking wells in water-bearing strata.

To collect in the interior of the boring-tool called a miser: used with up.

n. a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)

"He told her of the fairy mill, of the old man's gloating pride in the word miser, of All Souls 'Eve and Adam Craig's hints about the apple tree and the lilac bush."

spendthrift   

miser's gallon    misère   

miserly   

wretch    niggard    scrooge    skinflint    cheapskate   

Kaiser    adviser    advisor    divisor    geyser    incisor    kaiser    riser    sizer    visor   

hypocrite    usurer    idler    cynic    rake    weakling    drunkard    spendthrift    recluse    coward