Definition of lean

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Lean (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..

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Scraggy :: Scraggy (superl.) Lean and rough; scragged.
Lean-faced :: Lean-faced (a.) Having a thin face.
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge..
Clean :: Clean (superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
Cleaner :: Cleaner (n.) One who, or that which, cleans..
Elutriate :: Elutriate (v. t.) To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder which is separated from heavier particles by being drawn off with water; to cleanse, as by washing..
Cleaning :: Cleaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clea.
Knifeboard :: Knifeboard (n.) A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
Penwiper :: Penwiper (n.) A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen..
Single :: Single (n.) A handful of gleaned grain.
Uncleansable :: Uncleansable (a.) Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned.
Emaciate :: Emaciate (v. i.) To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
Fullage :: Fullage (n.) The money or price paid for fulling or cleansing cloth.
Pipe Clay :: Pipe clay () A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments..
Ceremonially :: Ceremonially (adv.) According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean..
Augean :: Augean (a.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day..
Uplean :: Uplean (v. i.) To lean or incline upon anything.
Meagre :: Meagre (a.) Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean..
Proclitic :: Proclitic (a.) Leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.
Blow-out :: Blow-out (n.) The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam..
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