Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
superl.) 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.
2. (superl.) Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
3. (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
4. (v. t.) To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail.
5. (v. i.) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
6. (adv.) In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly.
7. (n.) Scantness; scarcity.
Strong's Hebrew
6887a. tsarar -- to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or ...... 6887, 6887a. tsarar. 6887b . to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow,
scant,
or cramped. Transliteration: tsarar Short Definition: distress. Word Origin a prim
... /hebrew/6887a.htm - 6k 6887. tsarar -- to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or ...
... tsarar. 6887a . to bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or cramped.
Transliteration: tsarar Phonetic Spelling: (tsaw-rar') Short Definition: adversary. ...
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7332. razon -- leanness, wasting, scantness
... disease (2). leanness, scant. From razah; thinness -- leanness, X scant. see
HEBREW razah. 7331, 7332. razon. 7333 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library
"For they that are after the Flesh do Mind the Things of the Flesh ...
... Though some men, I say, escape the grosser pollutions of the flesh, yet they are
fettered within some narrow, scant, and but imaginary good things, they cannot ...
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Creation's Groans and the Saints' Sighs
... We heard of abundant harvests, but we soon discovered that they were all a
dream, and that there would be scant in the worker's cottage. ...
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A Peasant's Son
... away in wave-like undulations far as eye can reach; marsh and heath and sand, sand
and heath and marsh; here and there a stretch of scant coarse grass, a mass ...
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How to Read the Bible
... In the old Puritanic times men used to have a scant supply of other literature,
but they found a library enough in the one Book, the Bible. ...
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Jesus and Thomas.
... Even in the scant material available for the making up of the story, we find evidence
in Thomas of strong loyalty and unwavering devotion, and in Jesus of ...
/.../miller/personal friendships of jesus/chapter viii jesus and thomas.htm
Letter xi. Dionysius to Apollophanes, Philosopher.
... For thou rememberest with what a mild and benevolent disposition I have been accustomed
to rebuke thy obstinacy in error, although with scant reason, in order ...
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Selection
... Patrick, and that, the one which has for the most part been treated with scant notice,
namely, the years that preceded his second arrival in Ireland. ...
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The First Experiment
... of the soul. And yet there are others who, for exactly a contrary reason,
will find scant satisfaction here. Their complaint is ...
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The Journey through Perea to Jerusalem
... he resumed his ministry of teaching (Matthew 19:1f.; Mark 10:1). What he did and
taught at this time is not shown at all by John, and only in scant fashion by ...
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The Interior Castle or the Mansions by St. Teresa Ihs
... is to the point, they will understand that it does not originate from me and there
is no reason to attribute it to me, as with my scant understanding and skill ...
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Thesaurus
Scant (4 Occurrences)... 1. (superl.) Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted
for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a
scant allowance of
.../s/scant.htm - 8kScanty (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of
words; a scanty supply of bread. 3. (a.) Sparing; stingy; parsimonious. ...
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Lean (22 Occurrences)
... 7. (vi) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in
quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and ...
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Gebal (3 Occurrences)
... BC) and of Ramses XII, for its king retained the emissaries of the former 17 years
in captivity, and treated a trusted agent of the latter with scant civility. ...
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Wind (180 Occurrences)
... game. 22. (vt) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse,
so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. 23. ...
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Flowers (42 Occurrences)
... The beauty of the profusion of flowers which cover Palestine every spring receives
but scant reference in the Old Testament; Songs 2:12 is perhaps the only ...
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Poverty (25 Occurrences)
... poor," the word used is penes, which does not indicate extreme poverty, but simply
a condition of living from hand to mouth, a bare and scant livelihood, such ...
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Pilled (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & pp) of Pill. 2. (a.) Stripped of hair; scant
of hair; bald. Multi-Version Concordance Pilled (2 Occurrences). ...
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Stint (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To restrain within certain limits; to bound;
to confine; to restrain; to restrict to a scant allowance. ...
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Scandalous (1 Occurrence)
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