Sentence:  [H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no <WSD>niggard</WSD> hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Miserly or stingy.