Sickly vs Lean - What's the difference?
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Frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.
Having the appearance of sickness or ill health; appearing ill, infirm or unhealthy; pale.
* Dryden
Weak; faint; suggesting unhappiness.
Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease.
* Shakespeare
Tending to produce disease.
Tending to produce nausea; sickening.
To make sickly.
* Shakespeare
* 1840 , S. M. Heaton, George Heaton, Thoughts on the Litany, by a naval officer's orphan daughter (page 58)
* 1871 , Gail Hamilton, Country living and country thinking (page 109)
In a sick manner.
* 2010 , Rowan Somerville, The End of Sleep (page 66)
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)
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
* (1809-1892)
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, title= To hang outwards.
To press against.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(of a person or animal) slim; not fleshy.
(of meat) having little fat.
Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
Of a fuel-air mixture, having more air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; more air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.
(printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
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
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, month=July
, author=Blaine and Dupont Miller
, title=Weather Hop
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* {{quote-magazine
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Sickly is a related term of lean.
As an adjective sickly
is frequently ill; often in poor health; given to becoming ill.As a verb sickly
is to make sickly.As an adverb sickly
is in a sick manner.As a proper noun lean is
.sickly
English
Adjective
(er)- a sickly child
- a sickly plant
- The moon grows sickly at the sight of day.
- a sickly smile
- This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
- a sickly''' autumn; a '''sickly climate
- (Cowper)
- a sickly''' smell; '''sickly sentimentality
Verb
- Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
- He evidently thinks the sweet little innocents never heard or thought of such a thing before, and would go on burying their curly heads in books, and sicklying their rosy faces with "the pale cast of thought" till the end of time
Adverb
(en adverb)- The creaseless horizontal face of the giant smiled sickly , leering.
lean
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; via Proto-Indo-European with climate, cline.Verb
- They delight rather to lean to their old customs.
- He leaned not on his fathers but himself.
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.}}
- His fainting limbs against an oak he leant .
Derived terms
* lean back * leaning * lean on * lean-toEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- a lean''' budget; a '''lean harvest
- lean copy, matter, or type
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)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. }}
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. }}