Reverse Dictionary: LEAN (thin)

ADJECTIVES
► ALL PRICK AND RIBS LIKE A DROVER’S DOG lean and eager → 1960s Aust. sl.
► ALL PRICK AND RIBS LIKE A SHEARER’S DOG lean and eager → 1960s Aust. sl.
► ALL PRICK AND RIBS LIKE SWAGGIE’S DOG lean and eager → 1960s Aust. sl.
► CABROCH lean, rapacious → 1768 Sc.
► CARRION-LEAN lean as a wasting corpse or skeleton → 1542 obs.
► EKEN lean, thin, meagre → 1908 Sc.
► GANTY-GUTTED ► GAUNTY-GUTTED lean, lanky, gaunt → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRACILENT slender, thin, lean → 1727 obs.
► GRACILIOUS slender, thin, lean → 1688 obs.
► HAGGARD half-starved; gaunt, lean → 1630 obs.
► HAGGED lean, gaunt; haggard; worn-out, tired → 1694 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HERRING-GUTTED having a narrow, thin body like a herring; lanky, thin, lean, bony → 1726
► ILL-FAVOURED lean, ill-fed, not thriving → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ILL-THRODDEN lean, ill-fed, not thriving → 1898 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► ILL-VUXEN lean, looking as if badly fed → 1914 Sc. 
► LANNOCKING ► LENNOCKING slender, lean → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LARBAR lean, thin; exhausted, worn out → 1486 obs., chiefly Sc.
► LEAN AS A CHURCH-MOUSE very lean, thin → 1871
► LEAN AS A RAKE very lean, thin → c1386
► LEANISH somewhat lean → 1647
► LEAN-KINDED belonging to the lean kind → 1601 obs.
► LEANY lean, thin, scrawny → a1400 obs.
► LENTEN-FACED lean and dismal of countenance → 1604
► MACILENT thin, lean, lank, emaciated; shrivelled; having little flesh → 1535
► MAGER very lean, scraggy, emaciated → 1866 Sc.
► MAUGER lean, thin, peaked, sickly, weak in appearance → 1890 Amer. dial.
► NAEL ► NALE ► NEEL lean → 1859 back-slang (Bk.)
► PERGRACIL lean, slender → 1623 obs.
► POOR AS AN AIKAMY very lean → 1929 Sc.
► POOR AS JOB’S TURKEY very lean, emaciated → 1909 Amer. dial.
► RAKE-LEAN lean as a rake → 1593 obs.
► RAW-BONE raw-boned; very lean or gaunt → 1593 obs.
► RHINY thin; lean; hungry-looking → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAMMEL lean, scraggy → 1658 obs.
► SCARE of a person: lean and scraggy → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRAE ► SKRAE spare, meagre, lean → 1846 Sc.
► SCRANK ► SKRANK lank, lean, ill-formed, slender → 1846 Sc.
► SCRANKY ► SKRANKY lean, lank, thin, scraggy; withered, wrinkled → 1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRANNEL lean, thin; poor, worthless → 1857 Eng. dial.
► SCREEBIT poor, lean, fleshless → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCREEBIT-LOOKING poor, lean, fleshless → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SKELETONIAN resembling a skeleton; lean, thin → 1801
► SQUINNY very thin, lean, or slender; narrow → 1784
► THIN AS A GROAT of a person: lean, thin → 1890 Eng. dial.
► THIN AS A RAKE very thin, lean → 1823

NOUNS
► BARENESS leanness → 1552 obs.
► MACIATION a making lean → 1727 obs.
► MACILENCE thinness, leanness → 1852
► MACILENCY thinness, leanness → 1632
► MACRITUDE leanness → 1623 obs.
► MARCIDITY a wasted or withered condition; leanness, the want of flesh; rottenness → 1658 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BALD-RIB a lean bony person → 1621
► BARE-BONE a lean, skinny person → 1596
► BARE-BONES a lean person; a walking skeleton; also, a term of contempt → 1868 sl.
► CRAG a lean, scraggy person → 1542 obs.
► GANGERELL ► GANGREL ► GANGRIL ► GANGRILL a tall, lanky, ungainly person; a gaunt, lean, long-limbed person → 1585 arch. & Eng. dial.
► HECKABIRNEY ► HECKABIRNIE a lean, feeble creature → 1825 Sc.
► JABB a big, lean, uncomely person → 1866 Sc. (Bk.)
► KAIBREL a lean, stupid fellow → 1838 Sc. obs.
► LANK a lanky or lean person → 1881
► LARBAR a lean, withered, or worn out person → 1486 chiefly Sc. obs.
► NIZZER a lean, hard-faced person → 1866 Sc. 
► QUEER DUKE a lean, half-starved person → L17 UK criminals’ sl.
► RAG a term of contempt for a very lean and thin person  → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAKE a very thin or lean person → 1582
► RAW-BONE a very lean or gaunt person; a mere skeleton → 1638 obs.
► REEPAN a very lean person or animal; a low wretch → 1824 Sc. obs.
► RIBE a thin, lean person or animal; an animal in poor condition → 1820 Sc.
► RICKLE ► RICKLE OF BONES a very lean person or animal, a skeleton → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCADDIN a lean emaciated person or animal → 1866 Sc.
► SCRAMMEL a lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRANK a lean, slender person → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCRATCHIN a shrivelled, lean person → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCREIGH a lean person with a shrill voice, and generally of short stature → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SKELETON a very thin, lean, or emaciated person or animal → 1629
► SKELETONESS a very thin, lean or emaciated female → 1840
► SKELLINGTON a very thin, lean, or emaciated person → 1828 colloq.
► SKIN AND BONES a very lean person ..1888
► TANKER a big, lean, ugly person, animal, or thing → 1866 Sc.
► THIN-GUT one who has a thin belly; a lean, starved-looking person, a starveling → 1602 obs.
► WARBLE a lean, scraggy person → 1825 Sc. (Bk.)

VERBS
► COMMACERATE to make lean; to mortify, to harass, to torment → 1596 obs.
► FALL to shrink; of an animal or a limb: to become lean → 1599 obs.
► FALL OUT OF FLESH to shrink; of an animal or a limb: to become lean → 1530 obs.
► LANK to make lean or emaciated → 1804 Sc.
► LANKEN to grow lean and lanky → 1874 obs. (Bk.)
► LEAN to become lean; to make lean → c897 obs.
► LENSE to make thin or lean; to become thin or lean → a1000 obs.
► WANZE to diminish, to waste; later, to render lean → a1121 obs.