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Scantly

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Scantly
    In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. scantly
    In a scant manner or degree; sparingly; illiberally; slightly or slightingly.
  2. scantly
    Scarcely; hardly; barely.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adv) Scantly
    not fully or sufficiently, scarcely: narrowly: penuriously: scantily
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Ice. skamt, short, narrow, neut. of skammr, short.

Usage in the news

To make a ghost, use a scant tablespoon of frosting from second can for each bar . hsv.com

Bishop owned Bishop 's Pharmacy and Gifts in Albertville and Scant City. blog.al.com

This 6.5-horsepower vac earned points for its surprisingly quiet motor, scant 25.5-pound weight, and seven attachments. mensjournal.com

Fenlator and Jones edged Meyers and Madison by a scant 0.01 seconds. therepublic.com

This makes a scant 8 ounces soup or 4 (¼-cup) servings. latimes.com

"The reason for the scant existence of these dwellings is debatable," McGill says. lni.com

Laws' Scant Effect On Wages. online.wsj.com

Geo- engineering wins scant enthusiasm at UN climate talks. chicagotribune.com

Are you fully convinced that, in a scant 12 days, whatever Vague Disastrous Thing the Mayans predicted will finally occur. ashingtonpost.com

This testing for subclinical disease for the purpose of motivating behavioral change has become a common practice, despite scant supporting evidence. archinte.ama-assn.org

Split-second decisions, a little luck, and lot of focus helped one local couple pull off a dream wedding in a scant three months. charlestonmag.com

Details of what happened at the jail are scant. loganbanner.com

Testimony shows Sandusky accusers' claims got scant attention. philly.com

With scant snow in Anchorage, high school skiers will head to Girdwood. adn.com

Scant oversight in fatal outbreak. bendbulletin.com

Usage in scientific papers

So far the observational evidence for pinched or twisted fields near young stars is scant, although there are possible detections toward W3 (Greaves, Murray, & Holland 1994), Mon R2 (Greaves, Holland, & Murray 1995), and a number of other cloud cores (Greaves & Holland 1998).
Magnetic Field Morphology of Orion-IRc2 from 86 GHz SiO Maser Polarization Images

In particular, we look at correlations with higher-J yrast states, which with few exceptions have been paid scant attention so far.
A new puzzle for random interaction

One of the possible reasons why scant attention has been focused on longest paths is that, while shortest paths can be determined in polynomial time, longest path identification is an NP-complete problem (e.g. ).
Random and Longest Paths: Unnoticed Motifs of Complex Networks

Still, given their scant numbers in other galaxies, we expect the missing number of WNs to be a few percent of the total number of WRs.
The Wolf-Rayet Content of M31

There is scant evidence for any such relation, but we might assume β = 1 and attempt to estimate α as follows.
Testing Closed String Field Theory with Marginal Fields

Usage in literature

Two eggs (well beaten), one cup sweet milk, one half cup vinegar (scant) one teaspoon mixed mustard, one tablespoon butter (melted). "My Pet Recipes, Tried and True" by Various

We were scant of provisions, scant of transportation, scant of ammunition. "The Long Roll" by Mary Johnston

Scant as was the water ration, it enabled both the girl and Lennon to suck at lumps of raw bacon. "Bloom of Cactus" by Robert Ames Bennet

But the bombs were found in time, and no damage was done, and Theodore Roosevelt paid scant attention to them. "American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edward Stratemeyer

Vainly the scant telegraphic news was studied for any reference to the Russian situation in the Archangel area. "The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki" by Joel R. Moore

Why, she hath scantly a gown fit to show. "Clare Avery" by Emily Sarah Holt

Her head is held up by a man, whose scant garments show similarly stained. "The Death Shot" by Mayne Reid

My dinner at the City Hotel was scant and badly prepared. "Campaigns of a Non-Combatant," by George Alfred Townsend

You shall scantly go above him, I count. "The White Lady of Hazelwood" by Emily Sarah Holt

Now it has been held by those initiated into such mysteries that there is scant affinity between whiskey and water. "The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls" by Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

Usage in poetry
And above in the flickering glare
I mark me the boughs of my tree,
My tree of the years, growing bare.
Growing bare with the scant days to be.
Good news of welcome kind to all,
That come to Jesus at his call;
Yea, news of drawing pow'r, when scant,
To those that fain would come, and can't.
For all were merely lads; not one was able
To earn the crust of bread,
Though scant it might be, coarse and black and humble,
With which he must be fed.
Who climbs till nerve and force are spent,
With many a puff and pant:
Who still, as rises the ascent,
In language grows more violent,
Although in breath more scant:
First he did put no more nor lesse
Into my hart, then he did view
that there did want:
But when my breast in such excesse
Of lively flames to burne I knew,
then were so scant
Till the storm passed, and the slow tide returning
Cast him, a wreck, beneath his native sky;
Here, at his watch, gave him the chance of earning
Scant means to live--who won the right to die.