MI'SER, noun s as z. [Latin miser miserable.] A miserable person; one wretched or afflicted. 1. A wretch; a mean fellow. 2. An extremely covetous person; a sordid wretch; a niggard; one who in wealth makes himself miserable by the fear of poverty. [This is the only sense in which it is now used.] No silver saints by dying misers given.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI