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Scant   /skænt/   Listen
adjective
Scant  adj.  (compar. scanter; superl. scantest)  
1.
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. "His sermon was scant, in all, a quarter of an hour."
2.
Sparing; parsimonious; chary. "Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence."
Synonyms: See under Scanty.


verb
Scant  v. t.  (past & past part. scanted; pres. part. scanting)  
1.
To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries. "Where a man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted." "I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions."
2.
To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail. "Scant not my cups."


Scant  v. i.  To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.


noun
Scant  n.  Scantness; scarcity. (R.)


adverb
Scant  adv.  In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. (Obs.) "So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs."





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... troop, the members of which gave him scant attention. If they had ignored him altogether it would have been better than according him the cold politeness which they showed. No doubt their disappointment and humiliation were keen, and ...
— Tom Slade on Mystery Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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... sleep I may my sorrows lose. I do not crave that thou the wand of power, Three times in Lethe dipp'd, at me shouldst shake, And all my senses sprinkle o'er and o'er; Let souls, more fortunate, thereof partake— Of languid rest a portion scant and slight, My weary, wandering eyes content will make. Now all the world is hush'd; to sleep invite The falling stars, and lull'd appears the main, And prone the winds have slumber'd on their flight; I, I alone—who will ...
— Targum • George Borrow
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... Quebec would have seen its population trebled in 1628. As it was, the situation became worse than ever. Lewis Kirke had been careful to seize the cattle pastured at Cap Tourmente and to destroy the crops. When winter came, there were eighty mouths to feed on a scant diet of peas and maize, imperfectly ground, with a reserve supply of twelve hundred eels. Towards spring anything was welcome, and the roots of Solomon's seal were esteemed a feast. Champlain even gave ...
— The Founder of New France - A Chronicle of Champlain • Charles W. Colby
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... the country round about. On the farther bank the long lofty ridge of rock, trodden and licked bare of vegetation for ages by the countless passing buffalo; blackened by rain and sun; only the more desolate for a few dwarfish cedars and other timber scant and dreary to the eye. Encircling this hill in somewhat the shape of a horseshoe, a deep ravine heavily wooded and rank with grass and underbrush. The Kentuckians, disorderly foot and horse, rushing in foolhardiness to the top of this uncovered expanse of rock; the Indians, twice, ...
— The Choir Invisible • James Lane Allen
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... happened that when he had passed, she would slyly steal to the red gate in the lichen-covered stone wall, and follow him with her palm- shaded eyes down the lonely road; and it as frequently happened that he would glance back over his shoulder at the nut-brown maid, whose closely clinging, scant drapery gave her a sculpturesque grace to which her unconsciousness of it ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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