SCANT
\skˈant], \skˈant], \s_k_ˈa_n_t]\
Definitions of SCANT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
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work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
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supply sparingly, with a meager allowance
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
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To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
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To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
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To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
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In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
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Scantness; scarcity.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
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To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
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To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
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To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
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In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
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Scantness; scarcity.
By Noah Webster.
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Not full or abundant; having only a small amount; with of; as, scant of material; scarcely enouth; as, a scant supply of food.
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To stint; limit the supply of.
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Scantness.
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Scanter.
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Scantest.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; deficient.
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To limit; to straiten.
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To fail or become less.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
