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Scantly :: Scantly (adv.) Scarcely; hardly; barely.

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

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

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..

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

Eke :: Eke (v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Scantiness :: Scantiness (n.) Quality or condition of being scanty.

Expatiate :: Expatiate (v. i.) To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.

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..

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

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

Skimp :: Skimp (a.) Scanty.

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