Definition of Scarcily
{ Scarce, Scarce"ly }, adv.
1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but
just.
With a scarce well-lighted flame.
Milton.
The eldest scarcely five year was of
age. Chaucer.
Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the
tides. Dryden.
He had scarcely finished, when the laborer
arrived who had been sent for my ransom. W.
Irving.
2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
{ Scarce, Scarce"ly }, adv.
1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but
just.
With a scarce well-lighted flame.
Milton.
The eldest scarcely five year was of
age. Chaucer.
Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the
tides. Dryden.
He had scarcely finished, when the laborer
arrived who had been sent for my ransom. W.
Irving.
2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- In a scarce manner; hardly; not much or at all.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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