Scantly
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Scantly
In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.
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scantly
In a scant manner or degree; sparingly; illiberally; slightly or slightingly. -
scantly
Scarcely; hardly; barely.
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(adv)
Scantly
not fully or sufficiently, scarcely: narrowly: penuriously: scantily
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Ice. skamt, short, narrow, neut. of skammr, short.
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
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
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
We were scant of provisions, scant of transportation, scant of ammunition. "The Long Roll" by
Scant as was the water ration, it enabled both the girl and Lennon to suck at lumps of raw bacon. "Bloom of Cactus" by
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
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
Why, she hath scantly a gown fit to show. "Clare Avery" by
Her head is held up by a man, whose scant garments show similarly stained. "The Death Shot" by
My dinner at the City Hotel was scant and badly prepared. "Campaigns of a Non-Combatant," by
You shall scantly go above him, I count. "The White Lady of Hazelwood" by
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
I mark me the boughs of my tree,
My tree of the years, growing bare.
Growing bare with the scant days to be.
That come to Jesus at his call;
Yea, news of drawing pow'r, when scant,
To those that fain would come, and can't.
To earn the crust of bread,
Though scant it might be, coarse and black and humble,
With which he must be fed.
With many a puff and pant:
Who still, as rises the ascent,
In language grows more violent,
Although in breath more scant:
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
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.