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Not plentiful; small; scanty. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

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

The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. "Scantness of outward things." Barrow.

ting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant. his dominions were very narrow and scanty. Locke. Now scantier limits the proud arch confine. Pope.

Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.

Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.

voice; the treble. Grove. Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

One who descants.

To melt; to dissolve; to thaw. [Obs.]

See Descant, n.

Of or relating to Etruria. -- n.

Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans. Franciscan Brothers, pious laymen who devote themselves to useful works, such as manual labor schools, and other educational institutions; -- called also Brothers of the Third Order of St. Francis. -- Franciscan Nuns, nuns who follow the rule of t. Francis, esp…

Of or pertaining to mollusks. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the Osci, a primitive people of Campania, a province of ancient Italy. -- n.

Any species of penguin.

A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.

Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust.…

to Armenia. Armenian bole, a soft clayey earth of a bright red color found in Armenia, Tuscany, etc. -- Armenian stone. (a) The commercial name of lapis lazuli. (b) Emery.

One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.

Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. I will assert it from the scandal. Jer. Taylor.