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Poor :: Poor (superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc..

Wadmol :: Wadmol (n.) A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments by the poor, and for various other purposes..

Creature :: Creature (n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature..

Meanness :: Meanness (n.) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess..

Worse :: Worse (compar.) Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense..

Seedy :: Seedy (superl.) Old and worn out; exhausted; spiritless; also, poor and miserable looking; shabbily clothed; shabby looking; as, he looked seedy coat..

Lombar-house :: Lombar-house (n.) A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piete..

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..

Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families..

Sporades :: Spoor (v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.

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

Parish :: Parish (n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc..

Woful :: Woful (a.) Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.

Poverty :: Poverty (n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

Whip-poor-will :: Whip-poor-will (n.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker; -- so called in imitation of the peculiar notes which it utters in the evening.

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..

Foul :: Foul (superl.) Ugly; homely; poor.

Garreteer :: Garreteer (n.) One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack.

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

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

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