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Fillet :: Fillet (n.) Any scantling smaller than a batten.

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

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

Stud :: Stud (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed..

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

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

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

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..

Figured :: Figured (a.) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3..

Scant :: Scant (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

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

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A small quantity; a little bit; not much.

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

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) The dimensions of a piece of timber with regard to its breadth and thickness; hence, the measure or dimensions of anything..

Skimp :: Skimp (a.) Scanty.

Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) To sing a variation or accomplishment.

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..

Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.

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

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