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Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Scarce :: Scarce (superl.) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); -- with of.

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

Descanted :: Descanted (imp. & p. p.) of Descan.

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

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..

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 frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

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

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

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..

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

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