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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Scant \Scant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Scanting}.] 1. 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. 2. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail. [bd]Scant not my cups.[b8] --Shak. | |
