Poor, meagre, attenuated.
1809. Adams’s intellects are very small indeed, and his education very slim.—‘Trial of David Lynn and others,’ p. 15 (Augusta, Maine).
1837. Tuesday will be a slim “quarter day” to many of the landlords.—Balt. Comml. Transcript, Aug. 2, p. 2/3: from the N.Y. Sun.
1848. I never felt so slim in all my life.—Durivage and Burnham, ‘Stray Subjects,’ p. 195.
1857. It may be a slim thing for me to say, but I’ve got a notion that if my betters had been as much men as they had been somethin’ smaller and less becomin’, they never’d had any trouble with me, nor I with them.—J. G. Holland, ‘The Bay-Path,’ p. 157.
1862. The season was late, as the corn was mity slim.—Seba Smith, ‘Letters of Major Jack Downing,’ April 15.
1868. My landlord, the carpenter, attributed the slim attendance to a camp-meeting that was in successful operation about two miles from town.—Sol. Smith, ‘Autobiography,’ p. 92.
1869. A sailor had jumped overboard at Constantinople one night, and was seen no more, but it was suspected that his object was to desert, and there was a slim chance, at least, that he reached the shore.—Mark Twain, ‘The Innocents Abroad,’ ch. lx.
