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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

2. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Scanty. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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