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Definition of Meager

Meager
Meager Mea"ger, Meagre Mea"gre, v. t. To make lean. [Obs.]
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Meager Mea"ger, Meagre Mea"gre, a. [OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. ? long. Cf. Emaciate, Maigre.] 1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. --Shak. 2. 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. ``Meager soil.' --Dryden. Of secular habits and meager religious belief. --I. Taylor. His education had been but meager. --Motley. 3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. Syn: Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren.

Meaning of Meager from wikipedia

- Look up meager or meagre in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meager or Meagre may refer to: Meagre set (also meager set) in mathematics Mount Meager (British...
- Mount Meager may refer to: Mount Meager m****if, a group of mountains in British Columbia, Canada Mount Meager (British Columbia), a mountain of the above...
- Jill Meager is an English actor, artist and painter. Meager studied modern languages at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. She worked for several years as an actor...
- James Rawiri Meager (born 1986 or 1987) is a New Zealand politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives for the National Party in...
- Allyson McConnell (née Meagher, November 1978 – September 2013) was an Australian resident in Millet, Alberta, Canada who, in 2010, killed her sons by...
- the mathematical field of general topology, a meagre set (also called a meager set or a set of first category) is a subset of a topological space that...
- The 2010 Mount Meager landslide was a large catastrophic debris avalanche that occurred in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on August 6 at 3:27 a...
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- Rachael Meager is an Australian economist and statistician. She currently holds an ****istant Professorship at the London School of Economics, within the...
- The Mount Meager m****if is a group of volcanic peaks in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Part of the...