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Scyphus :: Scyphus (n.) A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans, esp. by poor folk..

Pauper :: Pauper (n.) A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor..

Poorbox :: Poorbox (n.) A receptacle in which money given for the poor is placed.

Rascality :: Rascality (n.) The poorer and lower classes of people.

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen; as, to relieve pain; to relieve the wants of the poor..

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

Poor-will :: Poor-will (n.) A bird of the Western United States (Phalaenoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.

Penniless :: Penniless (a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.

Hospitaler :: Hospitaler (n.) One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers..

Wretched :: Wretched (a.) Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin..

Indigent :: Indigent (a.) Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous.

Beggar :: Beggar (v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

Whiteboy :: Whiteboy (a.) One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids..

Eleemosynary :: Eleemosynary (a.) Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor..

Cr/che :: Cr/che (n.) A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work..

Poorly :: Poorly (adv.) Meanly; without spirit.

Land-poor :: Land-poor (a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.

Footy :: Footy (a.) Poor; mean.

Poorly :: Poorly (adv.) In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly..

Soul :: Soul (n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul..

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