Crossword clues for leaner
leaner
- A throw at horseshoes
- One who’s inclined to be thinner
- Less productive apprentice runs away
- Thinner person who's not upstanding?
- One-pointer in horseshoes
- More thin
- Horseshoes score
- More slender
- Less fat
- Lower in fat
- Less chubby
- Almost a ringer
- What dieters hope to be
- Two-point throw in horseshoes
- Throw that's not quite a ringer
- Shoe that's thrown to make a point
- Point counter in horseshoes
- One-point throw in horseshoes
- One resting against a stake
- Not so fat
- More efficient
- Like the person in a diet ad "after" picture
- Like beef loin, vis-à-vis chuck
- Less plump
- Less bureaucratic
- It's not quite a ringer
- Horseshoes toss
- Horseshoes throw that's against the stake
- Horseshoes scorer
- Good throw to the stake
- Certain horseshoe pitch
- Better trimmed
- Near ringer
- Score in horseshoes
- Horseshoes shot
- It's worth 1 point
- Good horseshoe toss
- "Almost" in horseshoes
- One-point score, of a sort
- Not profitable or prosperous
- Lacking excess flesh
- Lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- Containing little excess
- (metallurgy) low in mineral content
- Not so blubbery
- Hobber, in quoits
- Less fatty
- Hobber, in horseshoes
- Certain horseshoe throw
- Almost perfect horseshoes pitch
- Hobber, in the game of horseshoes
- Term in horseshoes
- Good throw, in horseshoes
- Second-best quoits pitch
- Not so chubby
- Point in horseshoes
- Not quite a ringer
- Score in quoits
- Almost perfect horseshoes throw
- Horseshoes term
- Point in horseshoe pitching
- Near-perfect horseshoe pitch
- Horseshoe pitch
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lean \Lean\ (l[=e]n), a. [Compar. Leaner (l[=e]n"[~e]r); superl. Leanest.] [OE. lene, AS. hl[=ae]ne; prob. akin to E. lean to incline. See Lean, v. i. ]
Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; slim; not plump; slender; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
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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. ``No lean wardrobe.''
--Shak.Their lean and flashy songs.
--Milton.What the land is, whether it be fat or lean.
--Num. xiii. 20.Out of my lean and low ability I'll lend you something.
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(Typog.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
Syn: slender; spare; thin; meager; lank; skinny; gaunt.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: lean) n. One who leans, or inclines toward something.
WordNet
n. (horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake
Usage examples of "leaner".
Now he was leaner and more grizzled, and there were pouches under his eyes.
Each time, his proof was leaner and more elegant than mine, though we had both arrived at the correct answer.
Life at the academy did not become easier for our portly friend, for despite drilling and the marching of his numerous demerits he grew no leaner, though he did seem to become both stronger and gain more endurance, both for physical exercise and the routine harassment that came with his girth.
It will make leaner hunting for us, true, but wolves can range farther than humans and even the bravest of the human bucks will hesitate to travel abroad when wolves sing in the night.
Derian could see the New Kelvinese tended toward leaner, finer builds.
And he saw the young, pretty face of Charlene grow harder, leaner, the eyes less full of light.
In TLC 6 you will learn how quality sleep will keep you leaner, younger, and healthier.
You can rescue yourself from decline and become healthy, energetic, younger looking, and leaner by replacing fat calories with a host of nutrient-dense, high-fiber foods.
Each and every 24 hours can be a nutrition turnaround, creating a leaner, younger, and healthier body.
I took care of his health and training program and watched him become leaner, stronger, and younger.
Her eyes followed his silhouette from broad shoulders to the leaner line of his waist.
His frame was leaner than Raphael, but that appearance could be attributed to his greater height.
He looked older, leaner, tougher, but he was still just as tall with the same broad shoulders and slim, trim waist, still just as incredibly attractive with glittering blue eyes and a generous mouth that slashed across his handsome face.
The one farthest from the duke bore enough of a resemblance to be a younger brother, but he was leaner and his eyes had a menacing cast as he fixed them upon James.
Rhun had grown taller and leaner, though his grin was as broad as it had ever been.