dearth

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
2. isim Scarcity; a lack or short supply.

   “And faine would hee, if he could tell how, haue plentie in his own fields, and scarcity in other mens; superfluitie at home, and dearth abroade, that hee might sell his corne at the dearer rate”

3. isim Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.

   “The property of Contraries is, that they become one anothers Cure, whereupon we who have suffered by scarcity and dearth, do pray to be relieved by their contraries, cheapness and plenty”

4. fiil To cause or produce a scarcity in something.