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Webster 1913 Edition


Leanness

Lean′ness

,
Noun.
[AS.
hlǣnnes
.]
The condition or quality of being lean.

Webster 1828 Edition


Leanness

LE'ANNESS

, n.
1.
Destitution of fat; want of flesh; thinness of body; meagerness; applied to animals.
2.
Want of matter; poverty; emptiness; as the leanness of a purse.
3.
In Scripture, want of grace and spiritual comfort.
He sent leanness into their soul. Ps. 106.