'Scantly' definitions:
Definition of 'Scantly'
From: GCIDE
- Scantly \Scant"ly\, adv.
- 1. In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Scarcely; hardly; barely. [1913 Webster]
- Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
- We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]