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Provide :: Provide (v. t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.

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..

Prejudicant :: Prejudicant (a.) Influenced by prejudice; biased.

Cantankerous :: Cantankerous (a.) Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious.

White Friar :: White friar () A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite..

Cant :: Cant (n.) Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves, tramps, or beggars..

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..

Acanthopterygii :: Acanthopterygii (n. pl.) An order of fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch..

Canticle :: Canticle (n.) A canto or division of a poe.

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

Recanter :: Recanter (n.) One who recants.

Unsignificant :: Unsignificant (a.) Insignificant.

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

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..

Cantile :: Cantile (v. i.) Same as Cantle, v. t..

Carmelite :: Carmelite (n.) A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar..

Franciscan :: Franciscan (n.) A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit..

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

Discant :: Discant (n.) See Descant, n..

Cantering :: Cantering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cante.

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