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

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

Scanted :: Scanted (imp. & p. p.) of Scan.

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

Discant :: Discant (n.) See Descant, n..

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

Scant :: Scant (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment..

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

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

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

Scant :: Scant (v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants..

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..

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..

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