All 15 Uses

scarcity
in
A Clash of Kings
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This is early to come calling, scarce past dawn.†
p. 4.6 *

scarce = in short supply OR barely or hardly (by a small margin)
I've heard tales, things I can scarce believe, even of a Bolton.†
p. 251.6
The man can scarce walk.†
p. 256.7
He bought grain when it was plentiful and sold bread when it was scarce.†
p. 271.9
Renly will scarce have unlimbered his siege engines before Father takes him in the rear.†
p. 321.5
Her bowl was empty, though she could scarce remember tasting the porridge.†
p. 337.5
What they found instead was a midden heap, a pigsty, an empty sheepfold, and a windowless daub-and-wattle hall scarce worthy of the name.†
p. 358.3
Scarce split the skin at all, but his head turned mushy and swelled up big as a gourd, only purply-red.†
p. 364.5
He had not known that Ambrode had a daughter, or Sigrin a wife ...but he'd met the younger shipwright only once, and the older one he scarce remembered.†
p. 379.1
In the islands it was scarce unheard of for a strong, ambitious uncle to dispossess a weak nephew of his rights, and usually murder him in the bargain.†
p. 386.7
No, Lancel scarce thinks at all, this is Cersei's doing.†
p. 444.4
I can scarce blame you for that.†
p. 493.3
We could scarce hope for better.†
p. 507.9
Catelyn scarce liked the sound of that.†
p. 558.7
Pinchbottom Petto and Sloe-Eyed Maid were too small for her needs, Bravo was bound for the Jade Sea, and Magister Manolo scarce looked seaworthy.†
p. 878.4

Definitions:

(1) (scarcity)
shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely (and typically in classic literature), scarce can be short for scarcely or hardly or barely or by a small margin -- such as in "She was scarce ten years old," or "I scarce know why."