Definition of poor

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Poor (superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings..

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Poor-spirited :: Poor-spirited (a.) Of a mean spirit; cowardly; base.
Scribbling :: Scribbling (a.) Writing hastily or poorly.
Penniless :: Penniless (a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.
Power :: Power (n.) Same as Poor, the fish..
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.
Bedehouse :: Bedehouse (n.) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
Offset :: Offset (n.) A more or less distinct transfer of a printed page or picture to the opposite page, when the pages are pressed together before the ink is dry or when it is poor..
Soul :: Soul (n.) A human being; a person; -- a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul..
Threepenny :: Threepenny (a.) Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean..
Charitable :: Charitable (a.) Liberal in benefactions to the poor; giving freely; generous; beneficent.
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..
Muff :: Muff (n.) A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
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..
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..
Scrannel :: Scrannel (a.) Slight; thin; lean; poor.
Beggar :: Beggar (v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
Inferior :: Inferior (a.) Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods..
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..
Whiteboy :: Whiteboy (a.) One of an association of poor Roman catholics which arose in Ireland about 1760, ostensibly to resist the collection of tithes, the members of which were so called from the white shirts they wore in their nocturnal raids..
Parish :: Parish (n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc..
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