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Definition for NIG'GARD
NIF'LE
NIG'GARD
NIG'GARD
, a.
Miserly; meanly covetous; sordidly parsimonious. Dryden.
Sparing; wary. Most free of question, but to our demands. Niggard in his reply. Shak.
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