Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scanting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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