\Scant"ly\, adv. 1. In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously. --Dryden. 2. Scarcely; hardly; barely. Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town. --Fairfax. We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. --Tennyson.