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Spare :: Spare (v. t.) Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet..

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

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

Princewood :: Princewood (n.) The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color..

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

Scarcely :: Scarcely (adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

Descanted :: Descanted (imp. & p. p.) of Descan.

Extemporize :: Extemporize (v. t.) To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc..

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

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

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.

Scanting :: Scanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scan.

Descanting :: Descanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descan.

Wart Hog :: Wart hog () Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of the coasts of

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

Figurate :: Figurate (a.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant..

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..

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

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..

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

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