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▸ adjective:  Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager.
▸ adjective:  Sparing; parsimonious; chary.
▸ adjective:  (cooking, of a measurement) Slightly diminished; just short of the amount described.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle.
▸ noun:  A small piece or quantity.
▸ noun:  (uncommon) Scarcity; lack.
▸ noun:  (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level.
▸ noun:  (masonry) A sheet of stone.
▸ noun:  (wood) A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size.
▸ adverb:  (uncommon or dated) With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

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