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

Soul :: Soul (n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul..

Poor :: Poor (superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.

Land-poor :: Land-poor (a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.

Meanly :: Meanly (adv.) In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.

Fund :: Fund (n.) An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object..

Sorry :: Sorry (a.) Poor; mean; worthless; as, a sorry excuse..

Annates :: Annates (n. pl.) The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the clergy to the pope; first fruits. In England, they now form a fund for the augmentation of poor livings..

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

Scribbling :: Scribbling (a.) Writing hastily or poorly.

Limp :: Limp (n.) A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.

Degenerate :: Degenerate (v. i.) To be or grow worse than one's kind, or than one was originally; hence, to be inferior; to grow poorer, meaner, or more vicious; to decline in good qualities; to deteriorate..

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

Bunchy :: Bunchy (a.) Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine..

Charitable :: Charitable (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.

Poor :: Poor (superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse..

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

Birrus :: Birrus (n.) A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head..

Workhouse :: Workhouse (n.) A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse..

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..

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