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

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

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

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

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

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..

Fillet :: Fillet (n.) Any scantling smaller than a batten.

Notching :: Notching (n.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions..

Scantness :: Scantness (n.) The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.

Scantly :: Scantly (adv.) In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.

Scrimp :: Scrimp (a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.

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

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

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

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

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..

Stint :: Stint (v. t.) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance.

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

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..

Spiderwort :: Spiderwort (n.) An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus..

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