To deviate or move from a straight or perpendicular line; or to be in a position thus deviating. We say, a column leans to the north or to the east; it leans to the right or left.

To incline or propend; to tend toward. They delight rather to lean to their old customs - .

To bend or incline so as to rest on something; as, to lean against a wall or a pillar; to lean on the arm of another.

To bend; to be in a bending posture.

To incline; to cause to lean.

To conceal.

Wanting flesh; meager; not fat; as a lean body; a lean man or animal.

Not rich; destitute of good qualities; bare; barren; as lean earth.

Low; poor; in opposition to rich or great; as a lean action.

Barren of thought; destitute of that which improves or entertains; jejune; as a lean discourse or dissertation.

That part of flesh which consists of muscle without the fat.