lean

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Not fleshy or fat; thin.
• adjective Containing little fat or less fat relative to a standard.
• adjective Not productive or prosperous; meager.
• adjective Containing little excess or waste; spare.
• adjective Thrifty in management, especially by employing just enough people to accomplish a task or do business.
• adjective Metallurgy Low in mineral contents.
• adjective Chemistry Lacking in combustible material.
• noun Meat with little or no fat.
• intransitive verb To bend or slant away from the vertical.
• intransitive verb To incline the weight of the body so as to be supported: synonym: slant.
• intransitive verb To rely for assistance or support.
• intransitive verb To have a tendency or preference.
• intransitive verb Informal To exert pressure.
• intransitive verb To set or place so as to be resting or supported.
• intransitive verb To cause to incline.
• noun A tilt or an inclination away from the vertical.

from The Century Dictionary.

• See lain.
• Scant of flesh; not fat or plump; spare; thin; lank: as, a lean body.
• Free from fat; consisting only or chiefly of solid flesh or muscle: as, lean meat; the lean part of a steak.
• Lacking in substance or in that which gives value; poor or scanty in essential qualities or contents; bare; barren; meager: as, a lean discourse; a lean purse; lean soil; lean trees.
• Exhibiting or producing leanness.
• Among printers, unprofitable; consuming extra time or labor.
• Synonyms Spare, lank, gaunt, skinny, poor, emaciated.
• noun That part of flesh which consists of muscle without fat.
• noun Any flesh that adheres to the blubber of a whale: same as fat-lean.
• noun Among printers, unprofitable work.
• To become lean.
• To make lean: as, the climate leans one very soon.
• In whaling, to remove the Lean or flesh from (blubber) with the leaning-knife.
• noun Deviation from a vertical position; inclination.
• To incline or deviate from a vertical position or line; deviate from an erect position; take or have an inclining posture or direction; bend or stoop out of line: as, the column leans to the north; the leaning tower of Pisa; to lean against a wall or over a balustrade.
• To deviate from a straight or straightforward line; turn: as, the road leans to the right.
• To depend, as for support or comfort: usually with on or upon: as, to lean on one's arm; to lean on the help of a friend.
• To bow or bend in submission; yield.
• To incline, as in feeling or opinion; tend, as in conduct: as, he leans toward fatalism.
• To incline for support or rest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating
• intransitive verb To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
• intransitive verb To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon, or against.
• adjective Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; slim; not plump; slender; meager; thin; lank
• adjective Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively
• adjective (Typog.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat.
• transitive verb obsolete To conceal.
• noun That part of flesh which consists principally of muscle without the fat.
• noun (Typog.) Unremunerative copy or work.
• transitive verb To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To hang outwards.