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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Extemporize :: Extemporize (v. t.) To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

Ground :: Ground (n.) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

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

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..

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

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