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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scant \Scant\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scant \Scant\, verb (used without an object) To fail, or become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scant \Scant\, adverb In a scant manner; with difficulty; scarcely; hardly. [Obs.] --Bacon.
So weak that he was scant able to go down the stairs. --Fuller.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scant \Scant\, adjective [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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scant \Scant\, noun Scantness; scarcity. [R.] --T. Carew.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scant
adjective: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" [syn: {light}, {scant(p)}, {short}]
verb
1: work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially [syn: {skimp}]
2: limit in quality or quantity [syn: {skimp}]
3: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" [syn: {stint}, {skimp}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "scant": Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, arrested, ascetic, austere, bankrupt in, bare of, begrudge, bereft of, bound, callow, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, condition, confine, confined, constricted, contain, copyright, cramp, cramped, crowded, defective, deficient, denuded of, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, discipline, draw the line, dwarfed, dwarfish, embryonic, empty of, exiguous, failing, famish, for want of, forlorn of, frugal, grudge, hedge about, hypoplastic, immature, impoverished, in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of, in short supply, in want of, inadequate, incapacious, incommodious, incomplete, infant, infrequent, insufficiency, insufficient, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, lacking, lean, limit, limited, live upon nothing, meager, mean, miserly, missing, moderate, narrow, near, needing, niggard, niggardly, out of, out of pocket, paltry, parsimonious, part, partial, patchy, patent, paucity, piddling, pinch, pinch pennies, poor, poverty, puny, qualify, rare, register, restrain, restrict, restricted, save-all, scamp, scant of, scanty, scarce, scarceness, scattered, scrappy, scrawny, screw, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, short, short of, shy, shy of, sketchy, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, spare, sparing, sparse, specialize, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, starve, stingy, stint, stinted, strait, straiten, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, tightfisted, unblessed with, underdeveloped, undeveloped, unnourishing, unnutritious, unpossessed of, void of, wanting, watered, watery
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