Scant (5)
Scant, n. Scantness; scarcity. T. Carew.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Scantily
Scant″i‐ly (?), adv. In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.His mind was very scantily stored with materials. Macaulay.
Scantiness
Scant″i‐ness, n. Quality or condition of being scanty.
Scantle
Scan″tle (?), v. i. [Dim. of scant, v.] To be deficient; to fail. Drayton.
Scantle (2)
Scan″tle (?), v. t. [OF. escanteler, eschanteler, to break into contles; pref. es- (L. ex) + cantel, chantel, corner, side, piece. Confused with E. scant. See Cantle.] To scant;...
Scantlet
Scant″let (?), n. [OF. eschantelet corner.] A small pattern; a small quantity. Sir M. Hale.
Scantling
Scant″ling (?), a. [See Scant, a.] Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
Scantling (2)
Scant″ling, n. [Cf. OF. eschantillon, F. échantillon, a sample, pattern, example. In some senses confused with scant insufficient. See Scantle, v. t.] 1. A fragment; a bit; a li...
Scantly
Scant″ly, adv. 1. In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously. Dryden.2. Scarcely; hardly; barely.Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispreadUpon that ...
Scantness
Scant″ness, n. The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. “Scantness of outward things.” Barrow.
Scanty
Scant″y (?), a. [Compar.Scantier (?); superl.Scantiest.] [From Scant, a.] 1. Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.His dominions were very narrow and scanty. ...
Scape
Scape (?), n. [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. � a staff: cf. F. scape. Cf. Scepter.] 1. (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the st...
Scape (2)
Scape, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p.Scaped (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Scaping.] [Aphetic form of escape.] To escape. Milton.Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.
Scape (3)
Scape, n. 1. An escape.I spake of most disastrous chances,...Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. Shak.2. Means of escape; evasion. Donne.3. A freak; a slip; a ...
Scape-wheel
Scape″–wheel′ (?), n.(Horol.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
Scapegallows
Scape″gal′lows (?), n. One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. Dickens.
Scapegoat
Scape″goat′ (?), n. [Scape (for escape) + goat.] 1. (Jewish Antiq.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape...
Scapegrace
Scape″grace′ (?), n. A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.
Scapeless
Scape″less, a.(Bot.) Destitute of a scape.
Scapement
Scape″ment (?), n. [See Scape, v., Escapement.] Same as Escapement, 3.
Scaphander
Sca‐phan″der (?), n. [Gr. �, �, anything hollowed + �, �, a man: cf. F. scaphandre.] The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.
Scaphism
Scaph″ism (?), n. [Gr. σκάφη a trough.] An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with hone...
Scaphite
Scaph″ite (?), n. [L. scapha a boat, fr. Gr. σκάφη a boat, anything dug or scooped out, fr. σκάπτειν to dig.] (Paleon.) Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belon...
Scaphocephalic
Scaph′o‐ce‐phal″ic (?), a.(Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or affected with, scaphocephaly.
Scaphocephaly
Scaph′o‐ceph″a‐ly (?), n. [Gr. σκάφη a boat + κεφαλή head.] (Anat.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
Scaphocerite
Scaph′o‐ce″rite (?), n. [Gr. σκάφη boat + E. cerite.] (Zoöl.) A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennæ of many Crustacea.
Scaphognathite
Sca‐phog″na‐thite (?), n. [Gr. σκάφη boat + γνάθοσ jaw.] (Zoöl.) A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping or...