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

Slum :: Slum (n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives..

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

Almshouse :: Almshouse (n.) A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.

Render :: Render (v. t.) To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner..

Bedehouse :: Bedehouse (n.) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

Impoor :: Impoor (v. t.) To impoverish.

Reliance :: Reliance (n.) Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance..

Impression :: Impression (n.) The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time..

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

Poorhouse :: Poorhouse (n.) A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.

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

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..

Vespillo :: Vespillo (n.) One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial.

Rhymester :: Rhymester (n.) A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry.

Mean :: Mean (superl.) Of poor quality; as, mean fare..

Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil..

Penny-a-liner :: Penny-a-liner (n.) One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer.

Popularity :: Popularity (n.) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity..

Lopsided :: Lopsided (a.) Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; full of idiosyncrasies.

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