noun. One who lives very meagerly in order to hoard money.

noun. A greedy or avaricious person.

noun. If. A miserable person; one who is wretched or unhappy.

noun. An extremely avaricious person; one who hoards money; a niggard; one who in wealth conducts himself as one afflicted with poverty.

Characteristic of a miser.

To gather or keep like a miser; keep with jealous care; hoard: with up.

noun. An iron cylinder with an opening in the side and a cutting lip, attached to the lower end of a boring-rod, used in the process of sinking wells in water-bearing strata.

To collect in the interior of the boring-tool called a miser: used with up.

noun. A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.

noun. A despicable person; a wretch.

noun. A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.

noun. A stingy person; one very reluctant to spend money.

noun. A kind of large earth auger.

noun. A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.

noun. a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)