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Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. "The gaunt mastiff." Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. Nichols.

A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying. To take up the gauntlet, to accept a challenge. -- To throw down the gauntlet, to offer or send a challenge. The gauntlet or glove was thrown down by the knight challenging, and was taken up by the one who accepted the challenge; -- hence the phrases.…

Wearing a gauntlet.

In a gaunt manner; meagerly.

A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere. Sir W. Scott.

With gaunt or slender legs. "An armgaunt steed." Shak.

Of. [Obs.] "The name of John a Gaunt." "What time a day is it " Shak. "It's six a clock." B. Jonson.

with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

To stake or pledge upon the event of a contingent issue; to wager. John a Gaunt loved him well, and betted much money on his head. Shak. I'll bet you two to one I'll make him do it. O. W. Holmes.

Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops. With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.

dissociate the particles of a concrete substance. Before Wyclif's death in 1384, John of Gaunt had openly dissociated himself from the reformer. A. W. Ward.

clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear. Shak. Furbish new the name of John a Gaunt. Shak.

A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. Fairholt.

A glove. See Gauntlet.

See Gauntree.

See Gauntree.

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. Shak.

knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation. A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, Must glove this hand. Shak. To tear thee joint by joint. Milton.

orses; as, he attended the races. The race is not to the swift. Eccl. ix. 11. I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race. Pope.

Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. Shak.