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Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.

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  1. n. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.
  2. n. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.
  3. n. an insufficient quantity or number
  4. 1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor. 2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T. Browne.
  5. The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.
  6. n:100 n an insufficient quantity or number