noun. A scarce supply; a lack.

noun. Shortage of food; famine.

noun. Dearness; costliness; high price.

noun. A condition of dearness or costliness from scarcity; hence, failure of production or supply; famine from failure or loss of crops.

noun. Absence; lack; barrenness; poverty: as, a dearth of love; a dearth of honest men.

noun. Synonyms Famine, etc. See scarcity.

To cause a dearth or scarcity in; hence, to raise the price of.

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

noun. this sense?) A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.

noun. Scarcity; a lack or short supply.

noun. Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.

noun. an acute insufficiency

noun. an insufficient quantity or number

"Amid a certain dearth of materials of a private kind, I do congratulate myself on having been able to use the packet of letters docketed by Sir Harry, "John Bell's and Charlie Beckwith's Letters.""