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scantly, adv.
- In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Scarcely; hardly; barely. [1913 Webster]"Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread
Upon that town." [1913 Webster]"We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
And there is scantly time for half the work." [1913 Webster]
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