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Toparchy :: Toparchy (n.) A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies..

Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity..

Henpeck :: Henpeck (v. t.) To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).

Questmonger :: Questmonger (n.) One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits..

Light-fingered :: Light-fingered (a.) Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts.

Pettifog :: Pettifog (v. i.) To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way..

Popeling :: Popeling (n.) A petty or deputy pope.

Micrology :: Micrology (n.) Attention to petty items or differences.

Pilfer :: Pilfer (v. t.) To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.

Chiff-chaff :: Chiff-chaff (n.) A species of European warbler (Sylvia hippolais); -- called also chip-chap, and pettychaps..

Squirely :: squireling (n.) A petty squire.

Shark :: Shark (v. t. & i.) Trickery; fraud; petty rapine; as, to live upon the shark..

Quartermaster :: Quartermaster (n.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master..

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

Satrap :: Satrap (n.) The governor of a province in ancient Persia; hence, a petty autocrat despot..

Shirk :: Shirk (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.

Sheepbiter :: Sheepbiter (n.) One who practices petty thefts.

Tindal :: Tindal (n.) A petty officer among lascars, or native East Indian sailors; a boatswain's mate; a cockswain..

Squib :: Squib (a.) A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay..

Sectiuncle :: Sectiuncle (n.) A little or petty sect.

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