macilent

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  1. Lean; thin; having little flesh. Lesse venerous then being macilent. Topsell, Beasts (1607), p. 231. (Halliwell.)
  2. Of literary products, thin; dry; jejune.

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese Italian macilento, from Latin macilentus, lean, meager, from macere, be lean: see emaciate, meager.
 

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