Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scantly \Scant"ly\, adv.
   1. In a scant manner; not fully or sufficiently; narrowly;
      penuriously. --Dryden.

   2. Scarcely; hardly; barely.

            Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon
            that town.                            --Fairfax.

            We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is
            scantly time for half the work.       --Tennyson.