Category:Scantly

Scant"ly, adv.

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

2. 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.