Definition of lean:

1. Wanting flesh; not fat; thin; not rich; poor; barren of thought and interest; jejune.
2. That part of flesh which consists of muscle without the fat.
3. To incline; to cause to lean.
4. To incline or bend; to deviate from a straight or perpendicular line; to incline towards; to rest against.

Common misspellings for lean:

leaan, wirery, leanr, lerarn, leana, ean, leran, leanit, leanto, leeann, leand, leen, leatn, alean, lena, klean.

Examples of usage for lean:

1. The best soup is made of the lean of fine fresh beef.

2. Take a pound of fat bacon and two pounds of lean veal, and cut them into small pieces.

3. A lean- to house from 6 to 9 feet wide against a south wall may be of great service.

Quotes for lean:

1. I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on. - Julie Andrews

2. Laws, like houses, lean on one another. - Edmund Burke

3. People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back. - Alistair Cooke

4. If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair. - John Langdon

5. I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. - Dave Matthews

Rhymes for lean:

1. agin, aileen, aldin, aleen, alene, ameen, amin, ardeen, arleen, baleen, benzene, between, caffeine, canteen, careen, carleen, casein, cathleen, celine, charleen, charlene, charline, chretien, christine, citrine, claudine, clymene, coleen, colleen, convene, corinne, crimean, cuisine, demean, deneen, doreen, eighteen, eileen, eugene, feldene, fifteen, foreseen, fourteen, francine, georgine, helene, ireene, irene, janine, jeanine, joaquin, jolene, justine, kathleen, killeen, kristine, lamine, latrine, laureen, laurene, levine, lorene, lurleen, machine, marcin, marine, marleen, marleene, martine, maureen, maxine, medin, moline, moreen, myrlene, nadine, nineteen, noreen, obscene, onscreen, pauline, philene, preteen, racine, ravine, sabine, salin, saline, sardine, sarene, seguin, selene, serene, sharleen, shirleen, sistine, sixteen, slovene, sunscreen, thirteen, umpteen, unclean, unseen, vaccine, wileen.
2. aquamarine, mujahedeen, mujahideen.
3. augustin, benyamin, bernadine, figurine, gelatine, geraldine, hallowe'en, halloween, intervene, madelene, propylene, reconvene, seventeen, smithereen, submarine, tambourine, tangerine, trampoline, unforeseen, valentin, wolverine.
4. bean, breen, cian, clean, dean, deane, deen, frean, freen, gean, gene, glean, green, greene, haen, jean, jeane, jeanne, kean, keane, keen, keene, leen, lene, lien, mclean, mean, meine, mien, nene, plein, preen, queen, scene, screen, seen, sheen, skene, spleen, steen, teen, treen, wean, wein, wien.

Idioms for lean:

1. lean and hungry

2. lean toward sm or sth

3. lean over

4. lean times