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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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"Scant" Quotes from Famous Books



... Australian was a loquacious fellow, with faculties sharpened by glimpses of life in many ports. He told them of the two emigrant convoys he had just seen arrive in Sacramento, worn and wasted by the last forced marches over the mountains. Susan, who had been busy over her cooking, according him scant attention, at his description of the trains, suddenly lifted intent eyes and ...
— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner
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— Northern Travel - Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland • Bayard Taylor
... great impression upon me—a most unreasonable impression, unwarranted by the scant facts as he related them. The girl whom he had seen resembled Frances—yes; but she was an Austrian, her name was not Morley. And resemblances were common enough. That Frances should be singing in a Paris church was most improbable; but, so far as that went, the fact of A. ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln
... lots Of people follow Dr. Watts, The sluggard, when his means are scant, Should seek ...
— Fables for the Frivolous • Guy Whitmore Carryl
... booths, gaudy merry-go-rounds, squalid taverns, and huge inns. Every place of entertainment was crowded, and congregations patiently awaited their turn in the street, undeterred by rain or wind or snow, offering absurdly high prices for scant accommodation and disheartened at having their offers refused. Extortion was rampant and profiteering went unpunished. Foreigners, mainly American and British, could be seen wandering, portmanteau in hand, from post to pillar, anxiously seeking where to ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon


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