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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
dearth
    n 1: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine,
         shortage]
    2: an insufficient quantity or number [syn: dearth, paucity]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Dearth \Dearth\, n. [OE. derthe, fr. dere. See Dear.]
   Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack
   of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
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         There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. --Acts
                                                  vii. 11.
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         He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. --Shak.
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         Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination.
                                                  --Dryden.
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3. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Dearth
   a scarcity of provisions (1 Kings 17). There were frequent
   dearths in Palestine. In the days of Abram there was a "famine
   in the land" (Gen. 12:10), so also in the days of Jacob (47:4,
   13). We read also of dearths in the time of the judges (Ruth
   1:1), and of the kings (2 Sam. 21:1; 1 Kings 18:2; 2 Kings 4:38;
   8:1).
   
     In New Testament times there was an extensive famine in
   Palestine (Acts 11:28) in the fourth year of the reign of the
   emperor Claudius (A.D. 44 and 45).
   

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