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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English scarce, skarce, scarse, scars, from Old Northern French scars, escars (\"sparing, niggard, parsimonious, miserly, poor\";  French échars, Medieval Latin scarsus (“diminished, reduced”)), of uncertain origin. One theory is that it derives originally from a Late Latin *scarpsus, *excarpsus, a participle form of *excarpere (“take out”), from Latin ex- + carpere; yet the sense evolution is difficult to trace. Compare Middle Dutch schaers (“sparing, niggard”), Middle Dutch schaers (“a pair of shears, plowshare”), scheeren (“to shear”)."
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              "mean": "Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.\n1691,  ,  Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. , London:    Awnsham and John Churchill, , published 1692, →OCLC:\nYou tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen in value one fifth.\n1913,  Joseph C. Lincoln,  chapter 3, in  Mr. Pratt's Patients: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."
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              "mean": "(archaic) Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book III”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:a region scarce of prey"
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              "mean": "(archaic, literary) Scarcely, only just.\n1646 (indicated as 1645)​,  John Milton,  “An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester”, in  Poems of Mr. John Milton, , London:    Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, , →OCLC, page 24: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.\n1845 February,  — Quarles ,  “The Raven”, in  The American Review‎, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, , →OCLC, page 144:And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, / That I scarce was sure I heard you  \n1898,  J. Meade Falkner,  chapter 4, in  Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.\n1906 August​,  Alfred Noyes,  “The Highwayman”, in  Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza VI, page 48:He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach her hand, / But she loosened her hair i' the casement! His face burnt like a brand / As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast; / And he kissed its waves in the moonlight, / (Oh, sweet, black waves in the moonlight!)\n1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, page 122:\nUpon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.\n1969, John Cleese, Monty Python's Flying Circus:\nWell, it's scarce the replacement then, is it?"
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