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Webster 1913 Edition

Niggard

Nig′gard

(nĭg′gẽrd)
,
Noun.
[Icel.
hnöggr
niggardly, stingy +
-ard
; cf. Sw.
njugg
, AS.
hneáw
.]
A person meanly stingy and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonious fellow; a miser.
Chaucer.
A penurious
niggard
of his wealth.
Milton.
Be
niggards
of advice on no pretense.
Pope.

Nig′gard

,
Adj.
Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.

Nig′gard

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.
[R.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Niggard

NIGGARD

,
Noun.
[straight, narrow; to haggle, to be sordidly parsimonious; exhibiting analogies similar to those of wretch, wreck and haggle.] 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.

NIGGARD

,
Adj.
1.
Miserly; meanly covetous; sordidly parsimonious.
2.
Sparing; wary.
Most free of question , but to our demands Niggard in his reply.

NIGGARD

,
Verb.
T.
To stint; to supply sparingly. [Little used.]

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