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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..

Spiderwort :: Spiderwort (n.) An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus..

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

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

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.) To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.

Scarcely :: Scarcely (adv.) With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.

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..

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..

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

Scantle :: Scantle (v. i.) To be deficient; to fail.

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

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

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

Meagreness :: Meagreness (n.) The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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