to holdor keep (a person) short: to press (him) hard in a contest; to keep rigidly confined or under strict discipline; to keep from something; in…

To keep ill supplied, to stint.

with of: To put or keep on short allowance of; to keep (one) short of; to abridge or deprive of. In passive, to be in want of, have only a scant…

transitive. To cause to die of hunger (also to starve to death); to deprive of or keep only scantily supplied with food over a period of time. Now…

transitive. To give scant provision to, stint, put on short allowance; = scant, v. 3.

To cause to go short, to supply insufficiently. Const. of, in. Obsolete.

To limit or restrict in (a supply, endowment, etc.). ? Obsolete.

To furnish (a person, etc.) with an inadequate supply; to stint or limit in respect of provision; to put or keep on short allowance. In passive, to…

To cause to go short of.

To inconvenience by insufficiency of something specified (as time, space, supplies of any kind). Const. for, †in, †of, †with. Now only in passive…

To deprive (a person) of anything necessary to life. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To confine within limits, to set bounds to (rarely in concrete sense); to bound, restrict. Const. to. †Also: to prohibit (a person) from…

transitive. To keep poorly or meagrely supplied, esp. with food or money; to restrict the expenses or resources of; to stint, to deprive. Also refl…

(under-, prefix1 affix 4a(a).)

(Now the most frequent use.) To limit unduly in supply; to keep on short allowance, to scant. Const. of.