Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
Miserly or stingy.
To hoard; to act stingily.
A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.
A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
Not noble; ignoble; base.
Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily.
To make (someone or something) no longer noble