GAUNT

gaunt. Gaunt, a. lean, meager, spare, thin, slender

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Gaunt (?), a. [[Cf. Norw. gand a thin pointed stick, a tall and thin man, and W. gwan weak.]] Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim. “The gaunt mastiff.” Pope. A mysterious but visible pestilence, striding gaunt and fleshless across our land. Nichols.