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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Expurgation :: Expurgation (n.) The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous..
Flush :: Flush (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes..
To-fall :: To-fall (n.) A lean-to. See Lean-to.
Leant :: Leant () of Lea.
Purge :: Purge (v. t.) To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away.
Gargle :: Gargle (n.) A liquid, as water or some medicated preparation, used to cleanse the mouth and throat, especially for a medical effect..
Hatchel :: Hatchel (n.) An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle..
Depurator :: Depurator (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses..
Dirty :: Dirty (superl.) Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white..
Stoop :: Stoop (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
Reclinant :: Reclinant (a.) Bending or leaning backward.
Ceruleous :: Ceruleous (a.) Cerulean.
Emaciate :: Emaciate (v. i.) To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
Orleans :: Orleans (n.) A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel..
Washing :: Washing (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.
Fat :: Fat (superl.) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox..
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..
Clean :: Clean (superl.) Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
Gyte :: Gyte (a.) Delirious; senselessly extravagant; as, the man is clean gyte..
Lank :: Lank (superl.) Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
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