SPage 94
- English Word Scantness Definition The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.
- English Word Scanty Definition Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
- English Word Scanty Definition Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
- English Word Scanty Definition Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
- English Word Scape Definition A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
- English Word Scape Definition The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
- English Word Scape Definition The shaft of a column.
- English Word Scape Definition The apophyge of a shaft.
- English Word Scape Definition To escape.
- English Word Scape Definition An escape.
- English Word Scape Definition Means of escape; evasion.
- English Word Scape Definition A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
- English Word Scape Definition Loose act of vice or lewdness.
- English Word Scape-wheel Definition The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
- English Word Scaped Definition of Scape
- English Word Scapegallows Definition One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.
- English Word Scapegoat Definition A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.
- English Word Scapegoat Definition Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
- English Word Scapegrace Definition A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless.
- English Word Scapeless Definition Destitute of a scape.