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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Groomer :: Groomer (n.) One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses..
Sluttish :: Sluttish (a.) Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman..
Careen :: Careen (v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel..
Mundification :: Mundification (n.) The act or operation of cleansing.
Orleans :: Orleans (n.) A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel..
Innixion :: Innixion (n.) Act of leaning upon something; incumbency.
Azure :: Azure (a.) Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless..
Defile :: Defile (v. t.) To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute.
Furring :: Furring (v. t.) A deposit from water, as on the inside of a boiler; also, the operation of cleaning away this deposit..
Detersion :: Detersion (n.) The act of deterging or cleansing, as a sore..
Chambermaid :: Chambermaid (n.) A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc..
Lean-to :: Lean-to (n.) A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall..
Sanctify :: Sanctify (v. t.) To make free from sin; to cleanse from moral corruption and pollution; to purify.
Wipe :: Wipe (n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean..
Mundation :: Mundation (n.) The act of cleansing.
Cleanse :: Cleanse (v. t.) To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean..
Absterse :: Absterse (v. t.) To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Gleaning :: Gleaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glea.
Depurator :: Depurator (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses..
Scranky :: Scranky (a.) Thin; lean.
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