miser

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One who lives very meagerly in order to hoard money.
2. n. A greedy or avaricious person.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. If. A miserable person; one who is wretched or unhappy.
2. n. An extremely avaricious person; one who hoards money; a niggard; one who in wealth conducts himself as one afflicted with poverty.
3. Characteristic of a miser.
4. To gather or keep like a miser; keep with jealous care; hoard: with up.
5. n. An iron cylinder with an opening in the side and a cutting lip, attached to the lower end of a boring-rod, used in the process of sinking wells in water-bearing strata. The bottom is conical, with a valved opening through which the earth can pass upward. In the so-called “pot-miser,” used in pebbly clay, there is no valve, but the soil is forced upward by a worm on the outside of the pot, which is conical in form, and over whose edge it falls as the instrument works its way downward.
6. To collect in the interior of the boring-tool called a miser: used with up.

Wiktionary

1. n. pejorative A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
2. n. obsolete A despicable person; a wretch.
3. n. A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
4. n. A stingy person; one very reluctant to spend money.
5. n. A kind of large earth auger.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)