Word Meanings - SCANTLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SCANTLING)

• Pittance
• Dole
• driblet
• drop
• drain
• scantling
• Sample
• Specimen
• pattern
• illustration
• case
• exemplification
• Scrap
• Scantling
• piece
• morsel
• fragment
• atom
• bit
• portion

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SCANTLING)

• Replenish
• fill
• supply
• pour
• moisten
• drown
• inundate
• drench
• swill

Related words: (words related to SCANTLING)

• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• SWILL
  To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness
• SCRAPING
  1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper. 2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
• DROWN
  To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak. (more info) be drowned, sink, become drunk, fr. druncen drunken. See Drunken,
• SCANTLING
  Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
• PATTERN
  A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it. Pattern box, chain, or cylinder , devices, in a loom, for
• REPLENISHMENT
  1. The act of replenishing, or the state of being replenished. 2. That which replenishes; supply. Cowper.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• SCANTLE
  To be deficient; to fail. Drayton.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• INUNDATE
  pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. 1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. 2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country
• MOISTENER
  One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• SWILLER
  One who swills.
• FRAGMENTIST
  A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbüttel.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• REAPPORTIONMENT
  A second or a new apportionment.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.