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

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

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

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

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..

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

Descanting :: Descanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descan.

Scanty :: Scanty (a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.

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

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..

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..

Wart Hog :: Wart hog () Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of the coasts of

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A fragment; a bit; a little piece.

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

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..

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A small quantity; a little bit; not much.

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

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

Spare :: Spare (v. t.) Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet..

Bare :: Bare (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture..

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