Lean is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LEAN in dictionary:

VERB:
• to incline or tilt
• be in or move into a sloping position
• incline from the perpendicular and rest for support against (something)
• cause something to rest against
• rest (against)
• To conceal.
• 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.
• To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
• To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.
• To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
• Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
• 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.
• Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
• to incline or bend from a vertical position
• cause to lean or incline
• have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
• rely on for support
• cause to lean to the side
NOUN:
• a deviation from the perpendicular; an inclination
• the lean part of meat
• That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.
• Unremunerative copy or work.
• the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
• lean part of meat
ADJECTIVE:
• having little fat
• (of a person or animal) thin, especially healthily so; having no superfluous fat
• (of meat) containing little fat
• (of an industry or company) efficient and with no wastage
• offering little reward, substance, or nourishment; meagre
• (of a vaporized fuel mixture) having a high proportion of air
• lacking excess flesh
• lacking in mineral content or combustible material
• containing little excess
• not profitable or prosperous
• thin but healthy-looking
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to deviate from a vertical position

Words related to LEAN

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Words that contain LEAN

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How to use LEAN in a sentence

• Then he remembered the cruel, lean face of Sinclair and the impatient eyes.
• With this gentleness there was something that made one feel she was capable and reliable, that there was a latent strength on which those she loved could lean and be at rest.
• I knew exactly how they would lean against the pillars of the saloon during the psalms.
• I put three cheeses on the top of each other and placed it above them, so as to lean against the lock.
• And no one that lived with Yudhishthira looked pale or ill, or was lean or weak, or was melancholy or terrified.
• It disappears in the woods which lean across the fields towards the downs.
• Then he came and sat down beside her and drew her head to lean upon him.
• William Thompson, forty-six years of age, tall, lean, wiry, had been a farmer all his life.
• That it produces pork of highest quality, the meat being fine in flavor, firm, and with lean and fat well distributed.
• But what of that? Do they not lean on the example of the past? The past! a handful of works that they themselves hardly understand.
• Even the sombre Baptist deacon gathered up the skirts of his long coat and bestirred his lean legs.
• Francia at that time was fifty-nine years of age, a lean and vigorous man, of medium stature, with piercing black eyes, but a countenance not otherwise marked.
• Senter, whose nightly hair-wavers are but a reed to lean upon in wet weather.
• Children bring up the rear and in the hall and doorway lean a few men who seem to have no particular relation to the occasion.
• The next morning, I was surprised to hear a great noise on the outside, and opening the door, looked out and saw a lean, lank, white woman.
• The yellow leopards, strained and lean, The treacherous Russian knows so well, With gaping blackened jaws are seen To leap through hail of screaming shell.
• But these had no rational basis behind them on which they could lean for support.
• Though rather lean in the stalks you be a green-leaved old man still.
• The old hunter had a fixed idea that dogs should be kept lean and hungry so they would run bears the better.
• That beef is most juicy and tender which has fine streaks of fat intermingled with the lean.
• It is natural that the pyre should take the shape of an altar and that cypress branches should lean against the sides.
• During this period of purifying themselves, they were not allowed to sit down, or even lean upon a tree, however fatigued, until after sun-set.
• No man can believe, that, at this time of day, I mean to lean on the venerable memory of a great man, whose loss we deplore in common.

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