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adjective

Thin adj. (compar. thinner; superl. thinnest)

1.

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

2.

Rare; not dense or thick; applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air. "In the day, when the air is more thin." "Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused."

3.

Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin. "Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people."

4.

Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness. "Seven thin ears... blasted with the east wind."

5.

Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.

6.

Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full. "Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams."

7.

Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise. "My tale is done, for my wit is but thin." Note: Thin is used in the formation of compounds which are mostly self-explaining; as, thin-faced, thin-lipped, thin-peopled, thin-shelled, and the like.

Thin section. See under Section.

verb

Thin v. t. (past & past part. thinned; pres. part. thinning) To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Thin v. i. To grow or become thin; used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.

adverb

Thin adv. Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin. "Spain is thin sown of people."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thin" Quotes from Famous Books

... things for the sick prelate, and had reasons yet more droll for what he did, but his practice was, as may happen on the whole, wiser than his reasons for its use. His patient was a man once bulky, but now thin, overworked, worried, subject to asthma, troubled with a bad stomach, prone to eat largely of coarse food, but indisposed to physical exercise. Cardan advised that the full, heated head, of which his patient much complained, should be washed night and morning with hot ...

— Doctor and Patient • S. Weir Mitchell

... sad sight to see the poor starved creatures looking so wistfully at one. What can I do? Poor souls! I cannot feed or look after them. I must leave it to God, who will arrange all in kindness. Some of them were so miserably thin. I have sent them some dhoora. I declare solemnly that I would give my life willingly to save the sufferings of these people; and if I would do this, how much more does He care for them than such imperfection as ...

— General Gordon - A Christian Hero • Seton Churchill

... shot a little with gray. He was perhaps thirty-eight, no taller than the girl herself, slim-waisted, with trim, athletic shoulders. His eyes, as they rested on the still-fluttering curtains, were a cold and steady gray. His face was thin and bronzed, his nose a trifle prominent. He was a man far from handsome, and yet there was something of fascination and strength about him. He did not belong to the Horde. Yet he might have been the force behind it, contemptuous of the chuckling group of rough-visaged ...

— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood

... no delicately adjusted rule about the thickness of bread in sandwiches. Sometimes Mother was moved to make them very dainty, very thin and trim. But now, because he was in such a fever to please the Carters, Father fairly slashed their last loaf of bread, and slapped in the lettuce, while Mother was drawing tea. In two minutes he was proudly entering with the service-tray. He set it down before ...

— The Innocents - A Story for Lovers • Sinclair Lewis

... Connemara, did the tourist only know it. The mountains towered green and grey above the palely shining sea in which they stood; the air was full of the sound of streams and the scent of wild flowers; the thin mist had in it something of the dazzle of the sunlight that was close behind it. Little Mrs. Spicer pulled down her veil: even after a fortnight's fly-fishing she still retained some ...

— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross

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