Crossword clues for scantness
scantness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scantness
Scantness \Scant"ness\, n.
The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness;
smallness; insufficiency; scantiness. ``Scantness of outward
things.''
--Barrow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scantness
late 14c., from scant (adj.) + -ness. Chaucer uses scantity.
Wiktionary
scantness
n. The property of being scant.
WordNet
scantness
n. the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, exiguity]
Usage examples of "scantness".
Upon the other side, to speak of the horrible disordinate scantness of clothing, as be these cutted slops or hanselines [breeches] , that through their shortness cover not the shameful member of man, to wicked intent alas!