A miser; a person meanly close and covetous; a sordid wretch who saves every cent, or spends grudgingly. Serve him as a grudging master, As a penurious niggard of his wealth. Be niggards of advice on no pretense.

Miserly; meanly covetous; sordidly parsimonious.

Sparing; wary. Most free of question, but to our demands Niggard in his reply.

To stint; to supply sparingly.