Definition of poor

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Poor (superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

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Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.
Poorly :: Poorly (a.) Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.
Indigent :: Indigent (a.) Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.
Fagend :: Fagend (n.) An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect..
Birrus :: Birrus (n.) A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head..
Footy :: Footy (a.) Poor; mean.
Almshouse :: Almshouse (n.) A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
Pan :: Pan (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly..
Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil..
Impoor :: Impoor (v. t.) To impoverish.
Contribute :: Contribute (v. t.) To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute food or fuel for the poor..
Bunchy :: Bunchy (a.) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine..
Seedy :: Seedy (superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat..
Steerage :: Steerage (n.) Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare..
Down :: Down (prep.) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep; -- usually in the plural..
Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected.
Pauper :: Pauper (n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor..
Sandhiller :: Sandhiller (n.) A nickname given to any poor white living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina..
Meanness :: Meanness (n.) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess..
Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
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