Definition of lean

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Lean (v. i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle..

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Water-closet :: Water-closet (n.) A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it..
Gleaner :: Gleaner (n.) One who gathers after reapers.
Flax :: Flax (n.) The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing..
Rusty :: Rusty (superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
Soil :: Soil (n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust..
Recumbent :: Recumbent (a.) Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle..
Pollution :: Pollution (n.) The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity..
Meagre :: Meagre (a.) Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean..
Van :: Van (v. t.) To wash or cleanse, as a small portion of ore, on a shovel..
Accumbent :: Accumbent (a.) Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals..
Swab :: Swab (n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship..
Sweeping :: Sweeper (n.) One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper..
Side :: Side (v. i.) To lean on one side.
Clean-timbered :: Clean-timbered (a.) Well-proportioned; symmetrical.
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) To cleanse or wipe with a sponge; as, to sponge a slate or a cannon; to wet with a sponge; as, to sponge cloth..
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..
Glean :: Glean (v. t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
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..
Leany :: Leany (a.) Lean.
Lavation :: Lavation (n.) A washing or cleansing.
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