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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. ``Scant not my cups.'' --Shak.

Scant \Scant\, v. i.
To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

Scant \Scant\, adv.
In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. [Obs.]
--Bacon.

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

Scant \Scant\, a. [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}.

Scant \Scant\, n.
Scantness; scarcity. [R.] --T. Carew.

Volume was a scant 349.7 million shares, down from 396.6 million shares Tuesday.
But they gave up almost all of that by year's end, when the returns totaled a scant 1.1%.
Only a scant few still hear the muffled echos, but this month 75 years ago, the guns of August opened the Great War that changed the shape of the world forever.
U.S. education has tended to standardize the means and pay scant heed to ends.
Although the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wall Street shot up as much as 20 points at the start of New York trading, London investors paid scant attention.
With scant public sympathy or government protection for unions, the number of major strikes dwindled to 44 last year from 187 in 1980.
Strangely the scientific establishment has paid scant attention to the plight of nonwinkers, devoting little research to the problem.
As he must know, there are far more extreme and violent abuses of the rights of domestic journalists by the government and the military in these countries, which receive scant attention by the media here, than occur in Nicaragua.
The farm slump, the cause of most of Hawkeye's $83.9 million in losses over the past seven quarters, shows scant signs of letting up.
Malaise is industrywide, but analysts worry that new HLTs will be scant and existing ones rocky.
In a new bit of evidence that business activity is indeed slackening, the Commerce Department reported that retail sales increased a scant 0.1 percent last month, following a downwnward-revised 0.6 percent decline in February.
This scant usage generally is blamed on the difficulty of programming the machines.
The outcome was not catastrophic, but that may provide scant consolation if allegedly foolproof systems failed to cope.
Total U.S. sales rose 14%, but pretax operating profit for that segment was a scant 1.8% because of intense tire industry competition, the company said.
The opposition contends this could allow police action on scant evidence.
That he has benefited from racial preference much of his adult life is now in scant dispute.
This reflects a scant supply of munis at a time of continued heavy Treasury-bond issuance. But the volume of new municipal bond sales is expected to pick up soon, which some analysts say will push muni yields up, narrowing the margin.
George Bush sought in the lofty cadences of his inaugural address to move finally from a partisan playing on national divisions to a president governing a nation "made whole." Bush had said his speech would be scant on specifics.
Government weather forecasters offered scant cheer to drought-plagued areas Wednesday, issuing a series of forecasts that call for more of the same, at least for the next month.
Homosexuality, abortion, pot and promiscuous sex drew hefty displeasure from the sample as a whole, but only scant disapproval from business, government and professional elites.
But pretax earnings at Salomon Brothers, the firm's securities unit, increased a scant 2% to $253 million from $248 million in the strong year-earlier quarter.
Volume was a scant 342.8 million shares, compared with 407.8 million shares on the previous trading day last Thursday.
Mr. Eigen pays scant attention to broad market moves.
But, as a well-regarded government borrower with triple-A bonds, Sweden was seen as a good name to reopen the 10-year Eurodollar bond sector, which has seen scant activity since mid-1987.
Chrysler's operating profit fell to a scant $22 million, or 10 cents a share, its lowest quarterly total in seven years.
With the exception of Kreg, Mr. Probst's characters display scant concern for such notions, using them cleverly as a smokescreen for their own greed.
People blamed temperatures that ranged from the high 20s to about 45 degrees for this year's scant supply of bare flesh.
The Commerce Department said inventories held on shelves and backlots rose $5.5 billion to a seasonally adjusted $749.4 billion, while sales fell a scant $35 million to $495.4 billion.
Mr. Boyd's interpretation is consonant with many of Nabokov's declared intentions, but it does tend to scant the ferocity, the imp of the perverse, that lies within much of his actual work.
They'll get scant encouragement from President Bush.

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