scarce
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Is scarce a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (chiefly of resources, such as food) Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.Examples: "By the end of the 20th century elephants had become scarce even in Africa."; "You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen in value one fifth."; "My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price."
adv (English)
1. (archaic, literary) Scarcely, only just.Examples: "The Virgin quite for her requeſt / The God that ſits at marriage feaſt; / He at their invoking came / But with a ſcarce-wel-lighted flame; / And in his Garland as he ſtood, / Ye might diſcern a Cipreſs bud."; "I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it."; "And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, / That I scarce was sure I heard you […]"archaicliterarynot-comparable
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