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Webster 1913 Edition
Scarcely
{
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 1828 Edition
Scarcely
SCARCELY
,adv.
1.
Hardly; scantly.We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
2.
Hardly; with difficulty.Slowly he sails, and scarcely stems the tides.