Noah Webster
Miser
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.