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

Nog :: Nog (v. t.) To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork..

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

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.

Skimp :: Skimp (a.) Scanty.

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

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..

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

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..

Expatiate :: Expatiate (v. i.) To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.

Wart Hog :: Wart hog () Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of the coasts of

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..

Scantly :: Scantly (adv.) Scarcely; hardly; barely.

Skinch :: Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The upper voice in part music.

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..

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

Short :: Short (superl.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water..

Scant :: Scant (n.) Scantness; scarcity.

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