Word Meanings - SCANTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To be deficient; to fail. Drayton.

Related words: (words related to SCANTLE)

• DEFICIENT
  Wanting, to make up completeness; wanting, as regards a requirement; not sufficient; inadequate; defective; imperfect; incomplete; lacking; as, deficient parts; deficient estate; deficient strength; deficient in judgment. The style was
• INDEFICIENT
  Not deficient; full. Brighter than the sun, and indeficient as the light of heaven. Jer. Taylor.