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Meaning of SCANTLY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 
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