Word Meanings - HUNKS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard. Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks. Gray.
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- MISERABLENESS
The state or quality of being miserable. - MISERABLE
1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters - NIGGARDISE
Niggardliness. Spenser. - SCRIMP
A pinching miser; a niggard. - SCRIMPINGLY
In a scrimping manner. - MISER
1. A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune. Spenser. The woeful words of a miser now despairing. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A despicable person; a wretch. Shak. 3. A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives - NIGGARDLY
In a niggard manner. - NIGGARDLINESS
The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison. - NIGGARDISH
Somewhat niggard. - HUNKS
A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard. Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks. Gray. - SCREW-DRIVER
A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw. - MISERY
1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer. Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom. iii. 16. 2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think - NIGGARD
A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. Chaucer. A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope. - MISERLY
Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly. Syn. -- Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious. - NIGGARDNESS
Niggardliness. Sir P. Sidney. - SCREW-CUTTING
Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe. - MISERICORDE
See 2 (more info) 1. Compassion; pity; mercy. - MISERATION
Commiseration. - MISERABLY
In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South. - SKINFLINT
A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. Sir W. Scott. - COMMISERATION
The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy. - COMMISERATIVE
Feeling or expressing commiseration. Todd. - TEMPER SCREW
1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting. - CORKSCREW
An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel. - CHURL
husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow - BREECH PIN; BREECH SCREW
A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore. - COMPROMISER
One who compromises. - BINDING SCREW
A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit. - BED SCREW
1. A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. 2. A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.