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Thin; lean. [Scot.]

Slight; thin; lean; poor. Having Grate on their scranned pipes of wretched straw. Milton.

Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

he surface with pressure, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.

An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.

A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.

A servant who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen. The meanest scullion that followed his camp. South.

nus Apion, which live in the seeds of various plants. -- Seed wool, cotton wool not yet cleansed of its seeds. [Southern U.S.]

To incline to one side; to lean; to roll, as a ship at sea. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

sepulcher. John xx. 1. A whited sepulcher. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii.27.

The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground. [Prov. Eng.]

else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean. Spenser.

th stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft. Chaucer. A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head. Ascham.

son), with the fingers, using either soap, or a soapy preparation, for the more thorough cleansing.

Clean; quite; at once. [Obs.] Milton.

ther; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Shak. Here the Baillie shifted and fidgeted about in his seat. Sir W. Scott.

To be occupied with making shocks. Reap well, scatter not, gather clean that is shorn, Bind fast, shock apace. Tusser.

To lean on one side. [Obs.] Bacon.