Mi'ser, n.

n. [Lat. miser, wretched, miserable, It. & Sp. misero, wretched, avaricious.]

1. A miserable person; one wretched or afflicted. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A wretch; a mean fellow; especially, an extremely covetous person; a sordid wretch; a niggard; one who in wealth makes himself miserable by the fear of poverty. “No silver saints by dying misers given.” Pope.

As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o’er. Goldsmith.