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Scanty :: Scanty (a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.

Descanter :: Descanter (n.) One who descants.

Scanty :: Scanty (a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread..

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

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

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

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..

Stud :: Stud (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed..

Scrimp :: Scrimp (a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.

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

Meagre :: Meagre (a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery..

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..

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

Scant :: Scant (superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

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..

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..

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

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble..

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

Exiguity :: Exiguity (n.) Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

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