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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Scantling :: Scantling (v. t.) A fragment; a bit; a little piece.

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..

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..

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.

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

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..

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..

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 frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

Pilled :: Pilled (a.) Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald.

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

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

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