Definition of scant

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Scant (v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail..

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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..
Scant :: Scant (superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
Tradescantia :: Tradescantia (n.) A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
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..
Scanting :: Scanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scan.
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..
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..
Scantness :: Scantness (n.) The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.
Pilled :: Pilled (a.) Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald.
Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.
Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The upper voice in part music.
Stint :: Stint (v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.
Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.
Scant :: Scant (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample.
Skimp :: Skimp (a.) Scanty.
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..
Scanty :: Scanty (a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread..
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..
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..
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