Scant

Definition of Scant

a.	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. - Ridley.
	2.	Sparing; parsimonious; chary. Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries. [imp. & p. p. Scanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Scanting.] Where a man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted. - Bacon. I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions. - Dryden.
	2.	To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
v. i.	1.	To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
adv.	1.	In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs. - Fuller.
n.	1.	Scantness; scarcity.

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