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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..

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

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..

Princewood :: Princewood (n.) The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color..

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) Any scantling smaller than a batten.

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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