A needy or destitute person, a pauper; (also with the) poor people as a class.

A poor or destitute person. Obsolete.

A person having no property or means of livelihood; a person dependent on the charity of others; (also) a beggar. In later use also in weakened…

A person who is unable to pay his or her debts; an insolvent person; (more generally) a person who has no more money. Also: an insolvent or…

terms of derision for one abjectly poor.

A person who has nothing; an impoverished or destitute person. Usually in plural. Cf. have-not, n., have-something, n.

a person who scavenges for bones in order to sell them to be reused for making glue, fertilizer, etc.; also figurative and in extended use (chiefly de…

A person who scavenges for bones in order to sell them to be reused for making glue, fertilizer, etc.; also figurative (chiefly depreciative); cf. b…

one who is in want of everything; hence (nonce-word).

One who is destitute, without friends, resources, or the means of subsistence.

slang. A penniless man; a wastrel; a tramp; a migratory or unskilled worker.

Of a person, country, etc.: completely without resources or means of livelihood; reduced to destitution or vagrancy.

a person who has been reduced to destitution or vagrancy.