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

Northman :: Northman (n.) One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman..

Scandia :: Scandia (n.) A chemical earth, the oxide of scandium..

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..

Scantily :: Scantily (adv.) In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.

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

Tuscan :: Tuscan (a.) Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust. of Capital..

Flagitious :: Flagitious (a.) Disgracefully or shamefully criminal; grossly wicked; scandalous; shameful; -- said of acts, crimes, etc..

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

Minor :: Minor (n.) A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

Kraken :: Kraken (n.) A fabulous Scandinavian sea monster, often represented as resembling an island, but sometimes as resembling an immense octopus..

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

Scandium :: Scandium (n.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44..

Scandal :: Scandal (v. t.) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander.

Scandalously :: Scandalously (adv.) With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong.

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

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..

Tertiary :: Tertiary (n.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third..

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

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

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