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

Scantling :: Scantling (a.) Not plentiful; small; scanty.

Scrimp :: Scrimp (a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.

Scanted :: Scanted (imp. & p. p.) of Scan.

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

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

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

Fur :: Fur (v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp..

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

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..

Dole :: Dole (n.) That which is dealt out; a part, share, or portion also, a scanty share or allowance..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Short :: Short (superl.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water..

Coruscant :: Coruscant (a.) Glittering in flashes; flashing.

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