SCANT'Y, adjective [from scant, and having the same signification.] 1. Narrow; small; wanting amplitude or extent. His dominions were very narrow and scanty Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. 2. Poor; not copious or full; not ample; hardly sufficient; as a scanty language; a scanty supply of words; a scantly supply of bread. 3. Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious. In illustrating a point of difficulty, be not too scanty of words.
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