adv. [f. LEAN a. + -LY2.] In a lean fashion; with a lean body or form; meagerly, poorly.

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1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Maigrement, leanely.

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1669.  Bunyan, Holy Citie, 152. It was also (though but leanly) represented to us by the golden state of old Jerusalem in the days of Solomon the King.

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1827.  Examiner, 67/1. Most leanly shapen.

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1876.  Lanier, Poems, Ps. West, 108. So leanly sails the day behind the day.

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