Angularity and Lean

angularity

(n.) The quality or state of being angular; angularness.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

lean

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical.
- usage: "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
- synonyms: tilt, list, inclination, leaning

To incline or bend from a vertical position.
- usage: "She leaned over the banister"
- synonyms: tilt, tip, slant, angle
Cause to lean or incline.
- usage: "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.
- usage: "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
- synonyms: tend, be given, incline, run
Rely on for support.
- usage: "We can lean on this man"
Cause to lean to the side.
- usage: "Erosion listed the old tree"
- synonyms: list

Lacking excess flesh."you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare
- synonyms: thin
Lacking in mineral content or combustible material.
- usage: "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
Containing little excess.
- usage: "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
- synonyms: skimpy
Not profitable or prosperous.
- usage: "a lean year"

(v.i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
(v.i.) To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
(n.) Unremunerative copy or work.
(v.i.) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon or against.
(v.t.) To conceal.
(v.i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
(v.i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter or type.
(v.i.) To incline, deviate or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.
(v.i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
(n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

LÉan is either masculine or feminine given name