present participle of scant

simple past tense and past participle of scant

(archaic) Diminished; restricted.

(Canada, US, slang) The drug methamphetamine hydrochloride, crystal meth.

Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager. / Sparing; parsimonious; chary.

(transitive) To limit in amount or share; to stint. / (intransitive) To fail, or become less; to scantle.

Very little, very few.

A small piece or quantity. / (uncommon) Scarcity; lack. / (masonry) A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. / (masonry) A sheet of stone.

(uncommon or old-fashioned) With difficulty; scarcely; hardly.

The property of being scant.