foolish. 
     Adv. with an unsparing hand; money burning a hole in one’s pocket. 
     Phr. amor nummi [Latin]; facile largiri de alieno[Lat]; wie gewonnen
so zerronnen [German]; les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent [French]; “spendthrift alike of money and of wit” [Cowper]; “squandering wealth was his peculiar art” [Dryden].

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     #819.  Parsimony.—­ N. parsimony, parcity|; parsimoniousness[obs3],
stinginess &c. adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.
     avarice, greed &c. 817a.
     miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm[obs3],
scrimp, lickpenny[obs3], hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch penny. 
     V. be parsimonious &c. adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe,
screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.
     drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop one
hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab. 
     Adj. parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling,
scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping &c. v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious. 
     Adv. with a sparing hand. 
     Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Latin][Syrus]; “hoards
after hoards his rising raptures fill” [Goldsmith]; “the unsunn’d heaps of miser’s treasures” [Milton].

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CLASS VI
WORDS RELATION TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS

Section I. Affections in General
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     #820.  Affections. —­ N. affections, affect; character, qualities,
disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis[obs3], idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness[obs3], propension[obs3], propendency|; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy &c. (love) 897.
     soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart’s core, heart’s strings,
heart’s blood; heart of hearts, bottom of one’s heart, penetralia mentis[Lat]; secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one’s heart; inmost heart, inmost soul; backbone.
     passion, pervading spirit; ruling passion, master passion;
furore[obs3]; fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul.
     energy, fervor, fire, force. 
     V. have affections, possess affections &c. n.; be of a character &c.
n.; be affected &c. adj.; breathe.