slim

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

• adjective Small in girth or thickness in proportion to height or length; slender.
• adjective Small in quantity or amount; meager.
• intransitive & transitive verb To become or make slim.
• intransitive & transitive verb To lose or cause to lose weight, as by dieting or exercise.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A Middle English form of slime.
• Cunning; crafty; tricky.
• Thin; slender: as, a slim waist.
• Hence Slight; flimsy; unsubstantial: as, slim work.
• Delicate; feeble.
• Slight; weak; trivial.
• Meager; small: as, a slim chance.
• Worthless; bad; wicked.
• SynonymsLank, gaunt, meager.
• To scamp one's work; do work in a careless, superficial manner.

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

• adjective Prov. Eng. & Scot. Worthless; bad.
• adjective Weak; slight; unsubstantial; poor.
• adjective Of small diameter or thickness in proportion to the height or length; slender

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

• adjective Slender, thin.
• adjective Very small, tiny.
• adjective South Africa Sly, crafty.
• noun A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes
• noun East Africa AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages
• noun slang, uncountable Cocaine; white lady.
• verb To lose weight in order to achieve slimness

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective small in quantity
• adjective being of delicate or slender build
• verb take off weight