Emaciation: alternatives and connections

Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular…

A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.

Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried.

The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing.

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…

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to…

To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate.

The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or l…

Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrou…

A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

Destitute of flesh; lean.

Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.

Like a hag; lean; ugly.

To lean or incline; to incline downward.

To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a ro…