 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 Seiten
...ichthyology. See RAIA. STIN'GY, adj. Ital. ttenau. A low cant word. Covetous ; niggardly ; avaricious. A stingy narrow-hearted fellow, that had a deal of...the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L' Estrange. He relates it only by parcels, and won't give us the whole ; which forces me to bespeak... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 Seiten
...See RAÍA. STIN'GY, adj. Ital. stenau. A low cant word. Covetous ; niggardly ; avaricious. A ¡tinga narrow-hearted fellow, that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heait to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'Kstrange. He relates it only by parcels, and won't... | |
 | John Bellenden Ker - 1837 - 334 Seiten
...Er's t'inge je, sounds stingy. JOHNSON offers neither source nor rationale for the term, but, proprid inscitid incensus denounces it for " a low cant word,"...the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten." — L'ESTRANOE. A NIGGARD. [Formerly spelt nigarde] ; mean-spirited, lowminded ; endowed by nature... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1806 - 786 Seiten
...chtcker'd fiough, dot it Jtmg a child Tuat'for the beaifty tluwks il excellent. Skat. choice fruit h,id not the heart to touch it till it began to 'be rotten. L'Kflrange.— He relates it o;iIv by pircelc, \yhicli turces me to befpe.ik his frirnds'to engape... | |
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He relates it only by parcels, and won't give us the whole ; which forces me to bespeak his friends to engage him to lay aside that stingy humour, and gra* tify the publick at once. 