Scant·ly, adv.
  1. In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.
  2. Scarcely; hardly; barely.
  Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread
  Upon that town.   --Fairfax.
  We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
  And there is scantly time for half the work.   --Tennyson.
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