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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..

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

Scantness :: Scantness (n.) The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.

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

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 (v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail..

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A rough draught; a rude sketch or outline.

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

Descanter :: Descanter (n.) One who descants.

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments..

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

Skimp :: Skimp (a.) Scanty.

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..

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..

Exiguity :: Exiguity (n.) Scantiness; smallness; thinness.

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

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

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

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

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