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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OE.

derthe

, fr.

dere

. See

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

There came a

dearth

over all the land of Egypt.

Acts vii. 11.

He with her press’d, she faint with

dearth

Shakespeare

Dearth

of plot, and narrowness of imagination.

Dryden.

Noun.

derth.