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

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

Figurate :: Figurate (a.) Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Scant :: Scant (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment..

Scantiness :: Scantiness (n.) Quality or condition of being scanty.

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

Scant :: Scant (superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

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

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..

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

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

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..

Penurious :: Penurious (a.) Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.

Expatiate :: Expatiate (v. i.) To enlarge in discourse or writing; to be copious in argument or discussion; to descant.

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