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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..

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..

Scant :: Scant (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

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..

Scantle :: Scantle (v. i.) To be deficient; to fail.

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..

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

Skimp :: Skimp (v. t.) To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.

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

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

Ground :: Ground (n.) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

Scantle :: Scantle (v. t.) To scant; to be niggard of; to divide into small pieces; to cut short or down.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song..

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

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

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments..

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..

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

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