adj
Scanty, as in clothing.
adj
(nonce word, archaic) Of uncertain meaning; perhaps describing gaunt or slender limbs.
adv
In a gaunt manner; meagerly.
adj
(UK dialectal) Difficult to procure; scant; sparing.
adj
(obsolete) scarce, scanty, small; barely
v
(UK) (intransitive, or transitive with of) To have an insufficient amount (of).
adj
(dated, Scotland and N England) scant; barely sufficient.
adj
(obsolete) Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
adj
Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
adj
Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
adj
Restricted, small, few, not plentiful.
adj
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
adj
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
adv
In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
adj
(rare, archaic) Meager looking.
adv
(now rare) In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.
adj
(rare) Subject to or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient.
adj
Not bountiful; thin; scant.
adj
(obsolete) Paltry; worthless.
v
(transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
n
The quality of being scant or sparse.
n
(obsolete) A small pattern or quantity.
n
(chiefly in the plural) The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
adj
Somewhat less than is needed in amplitude or extent.
adj
(archaic) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.
adj
(simile) Synonym of rare as hen's teeth
adv
(degree) Hardly: only just; by a small margin.
v
(transitive, dialectal) to make scarce, meager, or lean
adv
(obsolete or dialectal, colloquial, dated) scarcely; hardly
adj
(archaic) Knowing superficially or imperfectly.
adj
Short; scanty; curtailed.
n
The quality of being scrimpy.
adv
(archaic) In a scanty manner.
n
Chiefly in on a shoestring: very little money; a tight budget.
adv
So as to skimp; stingily; insufficiently.
adj
Small or inadequate; not generous; diminutive.
v
(slang) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.
adj
not thorough; superficial
n
(colloquial) A small amount, especially of money; paucity.
adj
Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
adv
In a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely.
adv
In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.
adj
(obsolete) sparing; parsimonious
adj
Small, scant, meager, insufficient
adv
sparingly; meanly; without generosity
adj
(archaic) parsimonious; sparing; niggardly
adj
Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
adj
scarce, or difficult to find.
adj
(colloquial) Scarce, hard to come by.
adj
(nautical) Having spars smaller than the usual dimension.
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