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Definition of Scarcely

Scarcely
Scarce Scarce, Scarcely 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.

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- to the practical applications of this discussion, other sciences are "scarcely worth a ****-hing." Copies of the essay were privately printed by Franklin...
- filthy receptacle of persons, crowded too with hordes of human beings, with scarcely space enough to contain the half of them—certainly not more than the quarter...
- French occupation of the region licenses for fur trading had been issued scarcely and only to select groups of traders, whereas the British, in an effort...
- island. However, until the post-Second World War era, the outer suburbs scarcely existed. Most of New Providence was uncultivated bush until Loyalists were...
- Iberia and the middle Pyrenees the power of the Muslims in the south was scarcely felt. It was here that the foundations of the Christian kingdoms of Asturias...
- knights." Perkins, The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, p. 1: "It can scarcely be claimed that a properly constituted Order existed at any time during...
- early 1970s when Derby and Leeds were two of the top English teams and the scarcely concealed hostility between their respective managers, Brian Clough and...
- Volkogonov said, while renouncing Leninist ideology, that "there can scarcely have been another man in history who managed so profoundly to change so...
- haemochromatosis (microscopy, 10x magnified): Parts of normal pink tissue are scarcely present. Specialty Endocrinology, hepatology  Differential diagnosis Haemochromatosis...