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

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

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 rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.

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..

Scant :: Scant (v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants..

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

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

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..

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

Dole :: Dole (v. t.) To deal out in small portions; to distribute, as a dole; to deal out scantily or grudgingly..

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..

Thinly :: Thinly (a.) In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited..

Wind :: Wind (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath..

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

Scantlet :: Scantlet (n.) A small pattern; a small quantity.

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..

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

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

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

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