Of inferior quality, poor, mean. Often said of clothing, food, dwelling, etc. Obsolete.

Scanty, poor in degree. Obsolete.

figurative. Deficient in substance or quality; poor; unsubstantial. Of diet or supplies: Scanty, meagre, spare; not full or rich; poor, low. Now rare.

figurative. Resembling a threadbare garment; hence, poorly furnished or provided; meagre, scanty, poor, beggarly; contemptible, ‘sorry’.

Meagre, scanty; (of soil) of poor quality, barren; (of a religious foundation, a benefice) poorly endowed.

Originally and chiefly Scottish. Meagre, poor, trifling; of little significance, substance, or value; spec. (of soil or earth) poor in quality or…

figurative. Poor, meagre; miserable, wretched. Obsolete.

Somewhat thin; tending to thinness.

lean as a wasting corpse or skeleton; figurative meagre, very deficient.

Carrion-lean, skeleton-like. Obsolete.

Probably a compositorial misreading of exile, adj. ‘meagre, scanty’, later explained as ‘slender, weak’.

Of a thing, circumstance, material condition, etc.: of, relating to, or indicative of poverty; poor, scanty; barren.

Not nourishing.

figurative. Poor in quality or quantity; thin, scanty, meagre, mean.

Deficient, inferior. Of an abstract quality, state, idea, resource, etc.: poor or unsatisfactory; inadequate.

? Niggardly, mean; inefficient, ineffective.

Loose from emptiness; not filled out or plump; shrunken, spare; flabby, hollow. of vegetable growth. Of grass: Long and flaccid. †Of a harvest…

Scant, slight, meagre.

Meagre, sapless. Also figurative.

Scanty; = scrimp, adj.

Skimpy; marked by skimpiness.

poetic. Scanty, meagre, rare.

colloquial or slang in uses derived from sense 5. Doubtful in amount or quality.

Mean, stingy, parsimonious; thrifty. Also: slight, scant.

Of a scrimp, scanty, meagre, or spare character; stinted or stunted in some respect; lacking the proper fulness or size.

Meagre, scanty, sparse.

Lean; scrawny; meagre. Originally and chiefly U.S.

Of the nature of or resembling a minnow. Chiefly figurative: small, meagre; of little significance.