Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SCANT'I-LY
SCANT'I-LY, adv. [from scanty.]
- Not fully; not plentifully. The troops were scantily supplied with flour.
- Sparingly; niggardly; as, to speak scantily of one. [Unusual.] – Shak.
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