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bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column. "He leant forward." Dickens.

Having a thin face.

e-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall. The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment. De Foe.

Having but little sense or shrewdness.

The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.

Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.

The condition or quality of being lean.

Lean. [Obs.] Spenser.

Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.

y-colored; blue; azure. Cowper. Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. Bryant.

Of or pertaining to Chile.

Same as Monkey-puzzle.

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

See Clear-cut.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

Well-propotioned; symmetrical. [Poetic] Shak.

One who, or that which, cleans.

The act of making clean.

In a cleanly manner.

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress. Cleanliness from head to heel. Swift.