3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. [Obs.] "My penurious
band." Shak.
Syn. -- Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; miserly; niggardly; stingy.
See Avaricious.
--Pe*nu"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Pe*nu"ri*ous*ness, n.
Pen"u*ry (?), n. [L. penuria; cf. Gr. &?; hunger, &?; poverty, need,
&?; one who works for his daily bread, a poor man, &?; to work for
one's daily bread, to be poor: cf. F. pÈnurie.] 1. Absence of
resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. "A
penury of military forces." Bacon.
They were exposed to hardship and penury.
Sprat.
It arises in neither from penury of thought.
Landor.