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

Eke :: Eke (v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other..

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..

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

Tradescantia :: Tradescantia (n.) A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

Exiguous :: Exiguous (a.) Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble..

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A piece or quantity cut for a special purpose; a sample.

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..

Surmise :: Surmise (n.) A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy..

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..

Skinch :: Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

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

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..

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..

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A piece of timber sawed or cut of a small size, as for studs, rails, etc..

Scantly :: Scantly (adv.) Scarcely; hardly; barely.

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

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..

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

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