Wanting in flesh; not plump or fat; thin. Also said †of the flesh, and of a person's condition, growth, appearance, etc.

spec. Having little flesh; lean, spare, not fat or plump. Also of ears of corn.

Thin, lean, as from hunger.

Of a person, animal, limb, etc.: having little flesh; lean, thin, emaciated.

Of the body: particularly thin; shrunken, emaciated. Obsolete.

(as) thin (also lean,†rank) as a rake: very thin; skinny.

Esp. of the body: lean, shrivelled, thin.

Of a bone: visible, exposed; showing through the skin. Also of an animal: raw-boned. Now rare.

In favourable or neutral sense: Slim, slender, not fat. Obsolete.

to be skin and bone (also bones): to be very thin or emaciated. to skin and bone (also bones): to the point of emaciation or complete despair. Also…

Lean.

Of a body that may be or is normally distended: That has sunk and become flat; thin from emptiness, as the breasts, the belly, etc.

? Thin, meagre.

Gripped or compressed tightly between any two surfaces, esp. between a finger and thumb; nipped, sharply squeezed. Also: †shaped as if tightly…

Of the body or its parts: Shrunken, attenuated; whence, prostrated.

lean as a wasting corpse or skeleton; figurative meagre, very deficient.

Of persons, their limbs, etc.: Having little flesh; not fat or plump; lean, thin.

Loose from emptiness; not filled out or plump; shrunken, spare; flabby, hollow. of the animal body or its parts.

Carrion-lean, skeleton-like. Obsolete.

shrunken in flesh, thin, skinny.

= raw-boned, adj.

Scraggy.

lean, hungry-looking.

Having the bones completely exposed; fleshless. Also in weakened use: so thin that the bones can be seen under the skin; extremely lean, gaunt…

Of a wretched appearance, meagre.

Showing traces of having fasted during Lent; emaciated.

transferred and figurative. In shotten herring, applied to a person who is exhausted by sickness or destitute of strength or resources (archaic)…

Thin and hard or dry; spare, lean.

Of a person or animal: emaciated from, or as if from, lack of food; lean, thin.

one who has a thin belly; in quot. attributive.

Of a person, a horse, a part of the body, etc.: having projecting bones barely covered with flesh; extremely lean or gaunt. Also (occasionally)…

A lean, withered, or worn out person.

Compositorial misreading of meagre, adj.

Without superfluous flesh; emaciated, lean.

Of persons, animals, or their limbs: Lean, thin, bony. Chiefly in depreciatory use.

Of uncertain meaning; perhaps: gaunt. Cf. balgh, adj.

colloquial. Of a person, animal, or body part: lacking flesh, esp. to an unusual or unattractive degree; thin, lean; scrawny.

Haggard; gaunt; extremely tired, worn out.

Scraggy, meagre. Obsolete. rare.

In senses of the verb. Made slender; shrunken, emaciated.

Thin-bellied, lank, lean. Also figurative.

Emaciated, starved. Obsolete except as merged with sense 4b.

Thin, meagre. Now chiefly as a reminiscence of Milton's use, usually with the sense: Harsh, unmelodious.

Somewhat lean.

Skeleton-like.

Excessively lean (in various senses of the adjective).

Made lean, atrophied. Also figurative.

Of persons, parts of the body, the hair: Lank, thin.

Resembling a lath; thin or long and thin like a lath. Said esp. of a very thin person.

= emaciated, adj.

Shrivelled or pinched with cold or hunger; wasted, stunted, withered.

Emaciated; also transferred of soils, exhausted, impoverished.

Lean, slender, scraggy.

Very thin or slender; lean, meagre; narrow. In the comb. squinny-gut(s). Also in combinations.

regional (now chiefly Caribbean). Of a person: thin, lean, skinny. Also (U.S. regional): weak, feeble, sickly.

Very thin or slender; lean, meagre; narrow. In general use.

Of a person, or a person's features, etc.: having an appearance suggestive of angles or sharp points, typically through being lean and having a…

Of a person, the complexion, or a part of the body: pale, wan; physically weak, feeble; (also) emaciated.

as thin (also lean) as a rail: (of a person) as thin as a piece of railing, very thin.

Of a person or animal: lean and sinewy in build. In extended use, of a quality or attribute: having the strength characteristic of this; tough…

Lank, lean, poor, ill-conditioned.

Lean, thin. Of diet: Poor, meagre.

peaked, thin.

Of a person, animal, or part of the body: thin, skinny.

Lean, scraggy.

Of a person, the body, etc.: Thin; exhibiting sinew rather than flesh. Of hair: thin, tending to hang in strands. Also in combinations.

Skeleton-like. Also in combinations.

Of a thin, bony, and lanky build.

emaciated.

Somewhat thin; tending to thinness.

Phrases and proverbs. all horn and hide: nothing but skin and bone.

Destitute of foliage; defective in flesh.

(of a person or a part of the body) extremely thin, very lean; emaciated; cf. skeletal, adj. additions d.

Not sufficiently heavy, lacking in weight; spec. of a person: lighter than average for one's height and build; too thin.

Applied to a type of physique (see quot. 1937).

to be skin and bone (also bones): to be very thin or emaciated. to skin and bone (also bones): to the point of emaciation or complete despair. Also…

Chiefly Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (northern). Long and thin; skinny, lanky. Frequently in skinnymalinky long legs…

Suggestive of a skeleton owing to extreme thinness; emaciated, skinny.

slang (usually depreciative). Thin, scrawny; weak, effete; (also) excessively studious.