SLEN'DER, a.
1. Thin small in circumference compared with the length not thick as a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
2. Small in the waist not thick or gross. A slender waist is considered as a beauty.
3. Not strong small slight. Mighty hearts are held in slender chains.
4. Weak feeble as slender hope slender probabilities a slender constitution.
5. Small inconsiderable as a man of slender parts.
6. Small inadequate as slender means of support a slender pittance.
7. Not amply supplied. The good Ostorius often deign'd to grace my slender table.
8. Spare abstemious as a slender diet.
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