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SCANT, v.t.

To limit; to straiten; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries; to scant a garment in cloth.

I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.

SCANT, v.i. To fail or become less; as, the wind scants.

SCANT, a.

1. Not full, large or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; rather less than is wanted for the purpose; as a scant allowance of provisions or water; a scant pattern of cloth for a garment.

2. Sparing; parsimonious; cautiously affording.

Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence. [Not in use.]

3. Not fair, free or favorable for a ship's course; as a scant wind.

SCANT, adv. Scarcely; hardly; not quite.

The people - received of the bankers scant twenty shillings for thirty. [Obsolete or vulgar.]
1913 Definition
Scant (scant)
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Scant
[Compar. Scanter (?); superl. Scantest.] [Icel. skamt, neuter of skamr, skammr, short; cf. skamta to dole out, to portion.]
  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.

    Syn. -- See under Scanty.

  3. 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. Bacon.

    I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions. Dryden.

  4. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
    "Scant not my cups." Shak.
  5. To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
  6. In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
    [Obs.] Bacon.

    So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs. Fuller.

  7. Scantness; scarcity.
    [R.] T. Carew.
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