SCANTLY

adv.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
adv.

In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously. Dryden.

2.
adv.

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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