What is the meaning of LEAN. Phrases containing LEAN
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v. i.
To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
v. i.
To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
imp. & p. p.
of Lean
v. i.
To lean; to fall partly over; to tip.
v. i.
Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
superl.
Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
v. i.
To lean or incline upon anything.
a.
Lean.
a.
To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
v. i.
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
v. i.
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
v. i.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
n.
A lean-to. See Lean-to.
a.
Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel.
v. i.
Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
v. i.
To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea.
n.
The condition or quality of being lean.
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