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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Scantle :: Scantle (v. t.) To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.

Scanting :: Scanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scan.

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

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..

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 (superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

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..

Exiguous :: Exiguous (a.) Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

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

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

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

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