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Lean

verb
(past & past part. leant or leaned; pres. part. leaning)
1.
To incline or bend from a vertical position.  Synonyms: angle, slant, tilt, tip.
2.
Cause to lean or incline.
3.
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.  Synonyms: be given, incline, run, tend.  "These dresses run small" , "He inclined to corpulence"
4.
Rely on for support.
5.
Cause to lean to the side.  Synonym: list.
adjective
(compar. leaner; superl. leanest)
1.
Lacking excess flesh.  Synonym: thin.  "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"
2.
Lacking in mineral content or combustible material.  "Lean fuel"
3.
Containing little excess.  Synonym: skimpy.  "A skimpy allowance"
4.
Not profitable or prosperous.
noun
1.
The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical.  Synonyms: inclination, leaning, list, tilt.  "The ship developed a list to starboard" , "He walked with a heavy inclination to the right"



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"Lean" Quotes from Famous Books



... he kinder lean' up 'g'inst de school-teacher whut board at Unc' Silas Diggs's house, ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough
... join the strain, M'Pherson, Fraser, and M'Lean; Through all your bounds let gladness reign, Both prince and patriot praising; Whose generous bounty richly pours The streams of plenty round your shores; To Scotia's hills their pride ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... shrugged his huge shoulders in stolid resignation; but the wrinkled forehead of the older man became somewhat smoother. There was nothing Jotun-like about his long, lean features, yet his expression was little pleasanter on that account. From under his lowering shaggy brows he appeared to see without being seen; and one distrusted his hidden eyes as a traveller in the open distrusts a skulker in ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... intellectual boy who unless mother looks after him will get indigestion or neurasthenia. Sometimes men pity their leaders. Meighen, with his intensity and his thought before action looks such a frail wisp of a man. The last time I saw him in public he was bare-headed on an open-air stage, a dusky, lean silhouette against a vast flare of water and sky. On the same spot less than two hundred years ago, that singular, overbuilt top head and sharply tapering, elongated oval of a face might have been that of ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... slavery. He, however, vehemently asserted that a restriction of slavery was cruel to the slaves already held. While their numbers would be the same, it would so crowd them in narrow limits as to expose them "in the old, exhausted States to destitution, and even to lean and haggard starvation, instead of allowing them to share the fat plenty of the new West."(42) (What an argument in favor of perpetuating an immoral thing! So spread it over the world as to make it thin, ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer


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