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Scant :: Scant (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment..

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample.

Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath..

Scantly :: Scantly (adv.) In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.

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

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

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..

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

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything..

Tradescantia :: Tradescantia (n.) A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

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

Surmise :: Surmise (n.) A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy..

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

Coruscant :: Coruscant (a.) Glittering in flashes; flashing.

Descanting :: Descanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descan.

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

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..

Scantle :: Scantle (v. i.) To be deficient; to fail.

Broadleaf :: Broadleaf (n.) A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit..

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

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