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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Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or as with water; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees..
Impure :: Impure (a.) Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas..
Breastheight :: Breastheight (n.) The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing..
Rinse :: Rinse (v. t.) To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
Detergency :: Detergency (n.) A cleansing quality or power.
Scullery :: Scullery (n.) A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen..
Orleans :: Orleans (n.) A variety of the plum. See under Plum.
Washing :: Washing (n.) The act of one who washes; the act of cleansing with water; ablution.
Scavenge :: Scavenge (v. t.) To cleanse, as streets, from filth..
Pipeclay :: Pipeclay (v. t.) To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments..
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge..
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc..
Poor :: Poor (superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc..
Recline :: Recline (v. t.) To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand..
Deterge :: Deterge (v. t.) To cleanse; to purge away, as foul or offending matter from the body, or from an ulcer..
Picker :: Picker (n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
Scraper :: Scraper (n.) An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges, for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship..
Marbling :: Marbling (n.) An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance..
Louse :: Louse (v. t.) To clean from lice.
Syringed :: Syringe (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc..
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