Crossword-Solution: LEAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lean | v. t. | To conceal. |
| Lean | v. i. | To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. |
| Lean | v. i. | To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc. |
| Lean | v. i. | To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against. |
| Lean | v. i. | To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest. |
| Lean | v. i. | Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle. |
| 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. |
| Lean | v. i. | Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type. |
| Lean | n. | That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat. |
| Lean | n. | Unremunerative copy or work. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LEAN | anagram | ALEN, ELAN, LAEN, LANE, LENA, NAEL, NALE, NEAL, NELA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with LEAN (5)
Not all unavenged did they die, for with Lean Wolf fell Alf Mason, to disturb the Spanish Main no more, and among others who bit the dust were Geo.
She took a chair by me, washed the blood from my face, and, with a mother’s tenderness, bound up my head, covering the wounded eye with a lean piece of fresh beef.
And he put it to us in this way—marking the points with a lean forefinger—as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it) and his fecundity.
Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.
Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable.
Quotes with LEAN (3)
Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held. He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.“Let go of me!” I yelled back. But he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that I wasn’t in total danger of falling again. See, here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I’d come to terms with it and …
Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 937 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).