Verb

To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.

To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to'', ''toward , etc.

* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

They delight rather to lean to their old customs.

To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .

* (1809-1892)

He leaned not on his fathers but himself.

* , chapter=23

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}

To hang outwards.

To press against.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

His fainting limbs against an oak he leant .

Verb

(en verb)

To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

* {{quote-magazine

, year=1938 , month=July , author=Blaine and Dupont Miller , title=Weather Hop , page=25 , magazine=Boy's Life , publisher=Boy Scouts of America , issn=0006-8608 citation , passage=He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose. }}

* {{quote-magazine

, year=2002 , month=July , author=Tom Benenson , title=Can Your Engine Run Too Lean? , volume=129 , issue=7 , page=73 , magazine=Flying , issn=0015-4806 citation , passage=Even the Pilot's Operating Handbooks (POH) for our training airplanes add to our paranoia with their insistence that we not lean the mixture until we're above 5000 feet density altitude. }}

Verb

(en verb)

To conceal.

(Ray)

Verb

(en verb)

To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.

* , Ruth 2:2,

Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.

* Shakespeare

To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.

To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).

to glean a field

To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.

* John Locke

content to glean what we can from experiments

* 8 December 2011 , BBC News, Iran shows film of captured US drone , available in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562 :

He said Iran was "well aware of what priceless technological information" could be gleaned from the aircraft.

To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.

He gleaned a living from newspaper work for a few months, but in the summer went to a fishing village […] where […] he wrote his great historical drama, "Master Olof." (Translators Edith and Warner Oland on author .)