What is "dearth"

Usage examples of "dearth".

She had lost weight during the voyage, the lack of exercise more than compensated by the dearth of appetising food.

Much could be found on the Carib Queen, but there was, understandably, a dearth of cryptographers.

In some ways-the rocks and grass, the uninhabited distances, the dearth of trees-this territory reminds me of that other seagirt land of evil memory, to which I was brought by Frankenstein and by his mentor Saville, a man more evil than himself, to be their slave, their accomplice, their companion-it would take a long list of words to exhaust all the possibilities of what I was to them at one time and another.

In the dearth of direct evidence as to the detail of the ceremonies enacted, or of the meanings connected with them, their tendency must be inferred from the characteristics of the contemplated deities with their accessory symbols and mythi, or from direct testimony as to the value of the Mysteries generally.

Why is it fretted with the ceaseless flow Of flood and ebb, with overgrowth and dearth, And vext with dreams, and clouded with strange woe?

A Dearth of Legal Obstacles to Assassination First of all, the legal restrictions on assassination are not as onerous as is commonly believed and are not the central problem with this policy option.

Now, counterbattery fire from the walls had become desultory, the dwindling number of losses from gun crews mostly being the result of long-range sniping with big bore wall-mounted matchlock calivers, but there seemed a dearth of notable marksmen within the city, for hits were rare, though the inch-or-more-in-diameter balls were almost certain to be the death of anyone so unfortunate as to be caught in the path of one.

Ours was but a small-scale, nineteenth-century repro of a castle, but the dearth of dungeons with manacled skeletons crumbling to dust was rather a sore point with me.

At any given period there was a dearth of reliable encyclopaedias, which exercised a monopoly on the dissemination of knowledge.

Side by side with this went on another work of peaceful internal administration which we can but dimly trace in the dearth of all written records, but which was ultimately to prove of far greater significance than the imperial schemes that in the eyes of his contemporaries took so much larger proportions and shone with so much brighter lustre.

Some analysts blame the recent bloodbath on a dearth of good content and wrong pricing.

Responding to the beginnings of a contrabasso growl, he added, "This last, through no slightest fault of Thoheeks Bahos and his committee, but simply through a dearth of state-slaves, suitable materials on hand where and when needed and difficulty of transporting said materials elsewhere quickly.

Like all unintelligent forces, it operates in a direction the reverse of its intention: to dearness it adds dearth, and empties, instead of replenishing, the markets.

Virtually every salvage expert in the world had discounted, even scoffed at, the possibility of raising the liner, even though there was no dearth of suggestions for achieving such an impossibility.

For, in most of these markets, neither assizes of bread nor orders for goodness and sweetness of grain and other commodities that are brought thither to be sold are any whit looked unto, but each one suffered to sell or set up what and how himself listeth: and this is one evident cause of dearth and scarcity in time of great abundance.