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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Scour :: Scour (v. i.) To cleanse anything.
Dress :: Dress (v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them..
Swab :: Swab (n.) A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads..
Cleanly :: Cleanly (superl.) Habitually clean; pure; innocent.
Police :: Police (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough..
Excerption :: Excerption (n.) That which is selected or gleaned; an extract.
Purging :: Purging (a.) That purges; cleansing.
Netify :: Netify (v. t.) To render neat; to clean; to put in order.
Graving :: Graving (n.) The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
Zoilean :: Zoilean (a.) Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ..
Dipping :: Dipping (n.) The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, esp. brass, by dipping it in acids, etc..
Fillet :: Fillet (n.) A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied..
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship..
Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Leaning or resting; -- said of anthers when lying on the inner side of the filament, or of cotyledons when the radicle lies against the back of one of them..
Emacerate :: Emacerate (v. t. & i.) To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.
Fluke :: Fluke (n.) An instrument for cleaning out a hole drilled in stone for blasting.
Epistolean :: Epistolean (n.) One who writes epistles; a correspondent.
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..
Depurgatory :: Depurgatory (a.) Serving to purge; tending to cleanse or purify.
Worm :: Worm (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b)..
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