scanted, ppl. a.
(ˈskæntɪd)
[f. scant v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb: Made scant or small, stinted, diminished, restricted, etc.
| 1594 Marlowe & Nashe Dido i. A 4, And euery beast the forrest doth send forth, [shall] Bequeath her young ones to our scanted foode. 1605 Shakes. Lear iii. ii. 67 While I to this hard house..returne, and force Their scanted curtesie. a 1635 Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 53 Wherein my Lord of Essex so wrought, by despising the number and quality of Rebels, that Norris was sent over with a scanted force. 1865 Swinburne Poems & Ball., Two Dreams 112, I have no wit to shape in written rhymes A scanted tithe of this great joy they had. |