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Scrimp :: Scrimp (a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

Penurious :: Penurious (a.) Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.

Figured :: Figured (a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3..

Skimp :: Skimp (v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.

Scant :: Scant (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

Short-wited :: Short-wited (a.) Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) Any scantling smaller than a batten.

Stud :: Stud (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed..

Scant :: Scant (superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

Scarce :: Scarce (superl.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.

Skimp :: Skimp (a.) Scanty.

Short :: Short (superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money..

Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.

Pilled :: Pilled (a.) Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald.

Exiguity :: Exiguity (n.) Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

Meagreness :: Meagreness (n.) The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc..

Spare :: Spare (v. t.) Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet..

Scanted :: Scanted (imp. & p. p.) of Scan.

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