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scant |
6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scant \Scant\, v. i. To fail or become less to scantle; as the wind scants. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scant \Scant\, adv In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. [Obs.] --Bacon. So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs. --Fuller. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scant \Scant\, n. Scantness; scarcity. [R.] --T. Carew. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scant \Scant\, a. [Compar. {Scanter}; superl. {Scantest}.] [Icel. skamt, neuter of skamr, skammr short; cf skamta to dole out to portion.] 1. 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. His sermon was scant, in all a quarter of an hour. --Ridley. 2. Sparing; parsimonious; chary. Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. --Shak. Syn: See under {Scanty}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Scant \Scant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scanted}; p. pr & vb n. {Scanting}.] 1. To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries. Where a man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted. --Bacon. I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions. --Dryden. 2. To cut short; to make small narrow, or scanty; to curtail. ``Scant not my cups.'' --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: scant adj : less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" [syn: {light}, {scant(p)}, {short}] v 1: work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially [syn: {skimp}] 2: limit in quality or quantity [syn: {skimp}] 3: supply sparingly, with a meager allowance [syn: {stint}, {skimp}]
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