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

Dole :: Dole (v. t.) To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly..

Discant :: Discant (n.) See Descant, n..

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

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.

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

Fur :: Fur (v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp..

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

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

Thinly :: Thinly (a.) In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited..

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A small quantity; a little bit; not much.

Figurate :: Figurate (a.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant..

Scarcely :: Scarcely (adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

Scantily :: Scantily (adv.) In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.

Spiderwort :: Spiderwort (n.) An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus..

Scant :: Scant (v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants..

Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..

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

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A fragment; a bit; a little piece.

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

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