The condition or quality of being lean; thinness; meagreness; poverty (of land); barrenness; etc.

The quality or condition of being bony; bony nature or character.

= macilency, n.

Leanness; emaciation.

Emaciation; wasting of the entire body.

Leanness, emaciation. Obsolete. rare.

Poor physical condition; leanness or feebleness resulting from insufficient nourishment. Obsolete.

Leanness. Obsolete.

The action or process of making or becoming thin; an instance of this; a shrunken condition; leanness, emaciation.

Deficiency in some good constituent; thinness, scantiness, insufficiency; unproductiveness; leanness or lack of vigour due to undernourishment.

The condition of being gaunt.

the condition of being lank.

Thinness, leanness. Also figurative.

The quality of being spare, in various senses of the adjective.

= emaciation, n.

The action of emaciating; the process or state of being emaciated; abnormal leanness. Also figurative.

The quality or condition of being skinny; esp. thinness, leanness.

With reference to a person. Angular appearance; leanness, boniness.

Lean or spare habit of body; spareness.

scragginess.