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Hackberry :: Hackberry (n.) A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the Eastern United States..

Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.

Scantness :: Scantness (n.) The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.

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

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

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble..

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

Stint :: Stint (v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

Dole :: Dole (n.) That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance..

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..

Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail..

Batten :: Batten (n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc..

Scanty :: Scanty (a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.

Skimp :: Skimp (a.) Scanty.

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

Scanty :: Scanty (a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread..

Descanter :: Descanter (n.) One who descants.

Scantling :: Scantling (a.) Not plentiful; small; scanty.

Meagre :: Meagre (a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery..

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