lean : Idioms & Phrases

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Foster lean

  • [ foster + AS. læn a loan See Loan.] , remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster child; also, the jointure of a wife. Obs. Wharton.
Webster 1913

lean against

  • verb rest on for support
    lean against; rest on.
    • you can lean on me if you get tired
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lean back

  • verb move the upper body backwards and down
    recline.
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lean on

  • verb rest on for support
    lean against; rest on.
    • you can lean on me if you get tired
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lean-faced

Lean"-faced` adjective
Definitions
  1. Having a thin face.
  2. (Typog.) slender or narrow; -- said of type the letters of which have thin lines, or are unusually narrow in proportion to their height. W. Savage.
Webster 1913

lean-to

  • noun rough shelter whose roof has only one slope
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Lean"-to` adjective
Definitions
  1. (Arch.) Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof. -- n. A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall. a crude, usually temporary shelter comprising a lean-to roof braced against any convenient support, as a wall, a tree or a pole. The roof may extend all the way to the ground.
    The outer circuit was covered as a lean-to, all round this inner apartment. De Foe.
Webster 1913

lean-to tent

  • noun tent that is attached to the side of a building
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lean-witted

Lean"-wit`ted adjective
Definitions
  1. Having but little sense or shrewdness.
Webster 1913

leaning tower

  • noun a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174
    Leaning Tower.
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leaning tower of pisa

  • noun a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174
    Leaning Tower.
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