Definition of poor

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Poor (n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

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Land-poor :: Land-poor (a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
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..
Charity :: Charity (n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions..
Popularity :: Popularity (n.) The quality or state of being adapted or pleasing to common, poor, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity..
Bedehouse :: Bedehouse (n.) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
Folks :: Folks (n. collect. & pl.) People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks..
Rich :: Rich (superl.) Having an abundance of material possessions; possessed of a large amount of property; well supplied with land, goods, or money; wealthy; opulent; affluent; -- opposed to poor..
Charity :: Charity (n.) Liberality to the poor and the suffering, to benevolent institutions, or to worthy causes; generosity..
Footy :: Footy (a.) Poor; mean.
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..
Meagre :: Meagre (a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery..
Box :: Box (n.) A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box..
Parish :: Parish (a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor..
Meanness :: Meanness (n.) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess..
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..
Beggar :: Beggar (v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
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..
Outdoor :: Outdoor (a.) Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients..
Poor :: Poor (superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
Poor-will :: Poor-will (n.) A bird of the Western United States (Phalaenoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.
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