Definition of lean

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Lean (v. i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type..

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Orleans :: Orleans (n.) A variety of the plum. See under Plum.
Flush :: Flush (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer..
Card :: Card (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back..
Meagre :: Meagre (a.) Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean..
Barebone :: Barebone (n.) A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.
Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away..
Clysmic :: Clysmic (a.) Washing; cleansing.
Scrub :: Scrub (v. t.) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate..
Pure :: Pure (superl.) Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion..
Purity :: Purity (n.) Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt.
Dirt :: Dirt (n.) Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt..
To-fall :: To-fall (n.) A lean-to. See Lean-to.
Recumb :: Recumb (v. i.) To lean; to recline; to repose.
Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To make lean; to cause to waste away.
Grave :: Grave (v. t.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose..
Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Discubitory :: Discubitory (a.) Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture.
Boil :: Boil (v. t.) To subject to the action of heat in a boiling liquid so as to produce some specific effect, as cooking, cleansing, etc.; as, to boil meat; to boil clothes..
Impure :: Impure (a.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
Meagreness :: Meagreness (n.) The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
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