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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously.

Dryden.

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.

, adv.

Scarcely; hardly. Obs.

Not fully or sufficiently; narrowly; penuriously; without amplitude.

scantly ‎(comparative more scantly, superlative most scantly)

In a way that is slightly lacking, that is scant of how much should be provided.
He scantly filled the bag, increasing his profits but getting dissatisified customers.
Barely; hardly.
- Tennyson
  We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.