Meagre

(a.) Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.

(a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery.

(a.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

(v. t.) To make lean.

(n.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.

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• There had been no handkerchiefs to work upon, for two or three days, and the dinners had been rather meagre. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The day's results are meagre, good my lord. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• This is the inventor’s own statement, but it gives a very meagre notion of the many months’ experimenting in his workshop while he hunted for a suitable filament for his electric light. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• My eyes and heart, Yorke, take pleasure in a sweet, young, fair face, as they are repelled by a grim, rugged, meagre one. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We have just had meagre reports of some such event. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It is to be observed that these references can be but of the most meagre kind, and must be regarded as merely throwing a side-light on the subject itself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She was not otherwise positively ill-looking, though anxious, meagre, of a muddy complexion, and looking as old again as she really was. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The resources of New York are rather meagre, he said; but I'll find a hansom first, and then we'll invent something. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Meagre and spare, like all the other rooms, it was even uglier and grimmer than the rest, by being the place of banishment for the worn-out furniture. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• There sat the meagre charity-seekers, looking as if they were at the doctor's. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The Edison dynamo, with its large masses of iron, was a vivid contrast to the then existing types with their meagre quantities of the ferric element. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• You are come at last, said the meagre man, gazing on his visitress with hollow eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I drew out my purse; a meagre thing it was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• She is pale and meagre and high-shouldered, and has not a word to say for herself, evidently. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• His visage was meagre, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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