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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
scarcely
    adv 1: only a very short time before; "they could barely hear
           the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being
           hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew
           open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have
           found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: barely,
           hardly, just, scarcely, scarce]
    2: almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly
       more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the
       emergency generator" [syn: hardly, scarcely]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scarce \Scarce\, Scarcely \Scarce"ly\, adv.
   1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just.
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            With a scarce well-lighted flame.     --Milton.
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            The eldest scarcely five year was of age. --Chaucer.
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            Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            He had scarcely finished, when the laborer arrived
            who had been sent for my ransom.      --W. Irving.
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   2. Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Thesaurus Results for scarcely:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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