(obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander. / (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.

Wrong, immoral, causing a scandal. / Malicious, defamatory. / Outrageous; exceeding reasonable limits.

(transitive) To cause great offense to (someone). / (transitive) To reproach. / (transitive) To disgrace. / (transitive) To libel.

(nautical) To reduce the area and efficiency of a sail by expedient means (e.g. slacking the peak and tricing up the tack) without properly reefing, thus slowing boat speed.

(uncountable) The quality of being scanty. / (countable) The result or product of being scanty.

Wearing very little clothing; almost naked.

Sparingly; not plentifully; not fully; in a scanty manner.

(chiefly in the plural) The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft. / (archaic) A small portion, a scant amount.

Not plentiful; small; scanty.

The rhythm or meter of a line or verse. / The act of analysing the meter of poetry.