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rely on for support; "We can lean on this man" cause to lean or incline; "He leaned his rifle against the wall" to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" not profitable or prosperous; "a lean year" unprofitable lacking in mineral content or combustible material; "lean ore"; "lean fuel" low in mineral content; "a lean ore" insufficient containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance" insufficient cause to lean to the side; "Erosion listed the old tree" lacking excess flesh; "you can''t be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare anorexic, bony, deep-eyed, fine-drawn, gangling, lank, rawboned, reedy, twiggy, scarecrowish, scraggy, shriveled, slender, slender-waisted, spare, spindle-legged, stringy, wisplike have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" |
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