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  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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