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Quartermaster :: Quartermaster (n.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master..

Cazic :: Cazic (n.) A chief or petty king among some tribes of Indians in America.

Pilfer :: Pilfer (v. i.) To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft..

Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity..

Tindal :: Tindal (n.) A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain..

Picayunish :: Picayunish (a.) Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business..

Henpeck :: Henpeck (v. t.) To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).

Knack :: Knack (n.) A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

Pettily :: Pettily (adv.) In a petty manner; frivolously.

Pimping :: Pimping (a.) Little; petty; pitiful.

Sharking :: Sharking (n.) Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices..

Amoret :: Amoret (n.) A petty love affair or amour.

Politicaster :: Politicaster (n.) A petty politician; a pretender in politics.

Beadle :: Beadle (v.) An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc..

Filchingly :: Filchingly (adv.) By pilfering or petty stealing.

Princelet :: Princelet (n.) A petty prince.

Spat :: Spat (n.) Hence, a petty combat, esp. a verbal one; a little quarrel, dispute, or dissension..

Literator :: Literator (n.) One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.

Knavery :: Knavery (n.) The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action.

Pilfer :: Pilfer (v. t.) To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.

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