Lean and Upon

noun

• 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

verb

• 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

adjective

• 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.

LÉan is either masculine or feminine given name

• Scottish: Serves John
• Irish: Irish form of Helen

(prep.) On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.