SCANT'ILY, adverb [from scanty.]
1. Not fully; not plentifully. the troops were scantily supplied with flour.
2. Sparingly; niggardly; as, to speak scantily of one. [Unusual.]
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.